zero point

1. 1.

   the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured

   Synonymszero

   Broadernumerical quantity

Questions about zero point

What does zero point mean?

zero point means "the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured".

What is another word for zero point?

Close synonyms include zero. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is zero point a common word?

zero point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.