In astrology, the
number 0 is ruled by the dwarf planet Pluto.
ISBN group
identifier for books published in English-speaking ares: Australia,
English-speaking Canada, Gibraltar, Ireland, New Zealand,
Puerto Rico, South
Africa, Swaziland, U.S., UK, and Zimbabwe (shared with 1).
lowest season
batting average of a major league pitcher (baseball record): Bob Buhl’s BA was
= .000 in 1962, at bat once for Milwaukee
Braves, sixty-nine
times for Chicago Cubs, all in thirty-five games. He struck out thirty-six times.
nothing, nil, zero.
number of actors in
Samuel Beckett’s play, Breath,
which lasts thirty-five seconds and has no dialogue. First performed in Glasgow
at the
Close Theatre Club,
October 1969.
pH of concentrated
hydrochloric acid, the most acidic substance.
shirt number worn
by hockey player Paul Bibeault, playing for the Montreal Canadiens as a backup
goalie during the 1942–43 season.
shirt number worn
by hockey player Neil Sheehy, playing defense for the Hartford Whalers in 1988.
Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 0
“Die Nullte”
symphony (in D minor).
ceiling zero
a pilot’s term for
weather condition in which heavy cloud cover totally obscures the field of
view.
Ceiling Zero
fast-paced 1935
film about commercial flyers, starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien. Directed
by Howard Hawks from a stage play by
Frank “Spig” Wead,
who also wrote the screenplay.
goose egg
slang for a score
of zero; applicable to several sports and games.
ground zero
the exact point at
which an explosion occurs.
null set
in mathematics, a
set (i.e., a class of definable items) entries in it; written [0].
zero
a person or thing
of no importance; a nonentity.
Zero
a Japanese fighter
plane in World War II, produced by the Mitsubishi Corporation.
zero degrees Celsius
temperature at
which water freezes (= 32 degrees Fahrenheit).
zero hour
time when a
military operation is scheduled to begin.
