Cypher and Zero

cypher

A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
- synonyms: zero, 0, nought, cipher
A quantity of no importance.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
A person of no influence.
- synonyms: cipher, nobody, nonentity
A secret method of writing.
- synonyms: cipher, cryptograph, secret code
A message written in a secret code.
- synonyms: cipher

Convert ordinary language into code.
- usage: "We should encode the message for security reasons"
- synonyms: code, encipher, cipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code
Make a mathematical calculation or computation.
- synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, work out, reckon, figure

(n.&v.) See Cipher.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

zero

A quantity of no importance.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zilch, zip, zippo
A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
- synonyms: 0, nought, cipher, cypher
The point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured.
- synonyms: zero point
The sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing.

Adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value.
Adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun. )
- usage: "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"
- synonyms: zero in

Indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration.
- usage: "a zero score"
- synonyms: 0
Having no measurable or otherwise determinable value.
- usage: "the goal is zero population growth"
Indicating an initial point or origin.
Of or relating to the null set (a set with no members. ).

(n.) The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.
(n.) Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero.
(n.) A cipher; nothing; naught.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Zero is a masculine given name