Nobody vs. Zero — What's the Difference?

A person of no importance or influence.

The numerical symbol 0; a cipher.

Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

The identity element for addition.

Someone who is not important or well-known.

A cardinal number indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration.

No person; no one; not anybody.

An ordinal number indicating an initial point or origin.

A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.

An argument at which the value of a function vanishes.

A person of no influence

The temperature indicated by the numeral 0 on a thermometer.

A sight setting that enables a firearm to shoot on target.

(Informal) One having no influence or importance; a nonentity

The lowest point

(Informal) Nothing; nil

Of, relating to, or being zero.

Having no measurable or otherwise determinable value.

(Informal) Not any; no

Designating a ceiling not more than 16 meters (52 feet) high.

Limited in horizontal visibility to no more than 55 meters (180 feet).

(Linguistics) Of or relating to a morpheme that is expected by an established, regular paradigm but has no spoken or written form. Moose has a zero plural; that is, its plural is moose.

To adjust (an instrument or a device) to zero value.

The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.

The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.

The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.

Nothing, or none.

The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.

The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.

(mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.

The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.

(slang) A person of little or no importance.

(military) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.

A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.

(finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).

(informal) No, not any.

(meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.

(meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.

(linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.

(transitive) To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate an instrument scale to valid zero.

To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.

(transitive) To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.

(transitive) To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.

(intransitive) To disappear.

A cipher; nothing; naught.

The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.

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

A quantity of no importance;

A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

The quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale

Adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

Adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun);

Indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration;

Indicating an initial point or origin

Of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

Having no measurable or otherwise determinable value;