1. (noun)nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo a quantity of no importance "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
2. (noun)zero, 0, nought, cipher, cypher a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the samenumber
3. (noun)zero, zero point the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured