zeros math definition
noun, plural zeros, zeroes. 1. the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher. 2. the origin of any kind of measurement; line or point from which all divisions of a scale, as a thermometer, are measured in either a positive or a negative direction.
Zero is the integer denoted 0 that, when used as a counting number, means that no objects are present. It is the only integer (and, in fact, the only real number) that is neither negative nor positive. A number which is not zero is said to be nonzero. A root of a function is also sometimes known as a zero of ..