zero prefix (English, noun)
expansion: zero prefix (plural zero prefixes)
Senses:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: The digit 0 that begins all telephone numbers in the United Kingdom, which is substituted for the country code in the event of international calls.
tags: UK
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: A prefix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a prefix where one might otherwise be expected (for example, as one of several inflections that a stem can take, or the reduction of a historically vocalised prefix to the point that it is inaudible).
Forms:
form: zero prefixes
tags: plural