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   Zarpanit
         n 1: consort of Marduk [syn: {Sarpanitu}, {Zirbanit},
               {Zarpanit}]

English Dictionary: zero point by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zero point
n
  1. the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
    Synonym(s): zero, zero point
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Zirbanit
n
  1. consort of Marduk [syn: Sarpanitu, Zirbanit, Zarpanit]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Zurvan
n
  1. the Zoroastrian god of time
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Zurvanism
n
  1. a Zoroastrian sect that claims Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe
  2. a heretical Zoroastrian doctrine holding that Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe and that both Ahura Mazda and Ahriman were Zurvan's offspring
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zero \Ze"ro\, n.; pl. {Zeros}or {Zeroes}. [F. z[82]ro, from Ar.
      [cced]afrun, [cced]ifrun, empty, a cipher. Cf. {Cipher}.]
      1. (Arith.) A cipher; nothing; naught.
  
      2. The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a
            thermometer, commences.
  
      Note: Zero in the Centigrade, or Celsius thermometer, and in
               the R[82]aumur thermometer, is at the point at which
               water congeals. The zero of the Fahrenheit thermometer
               is fixed at the point at which the mercury stands when
               immersed in a mixture of snow and common salt. In
               Wedgwood's pyrometer, the zero corresponds with
               1077[f8] on the Fahrenheit scale. See Illust. of
               {Thermometer}.
  
      3. Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his
            patience had nearly reached zero.
  
      {Absolute zero}. See under {Absolute}.
  
      {Zero method} (Physics), a method of comparing, or measuring,
            forces, electric currents, etc., by so opposing them that
            the pointer of an indicating apparatus, or the needle of a
            galvanometer, remains at, or is brought to, zero, as
            contrasted with methods in which the deflection is
            observed directly; -- called also {null method}.
  
      {Zero point}, the point indicating zero, or the commencement
            of a scale or reckoning.
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