Zero

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.

(2): ( n.) Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero.

(3): ( n.) A cipher; nothing; naught.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

A word of Arab origin signifying a cipher, and employed to denote a neutral point in scale between an ascending and descending series, or between positive and negative.

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