Nought
noun
The digit 0 or zero.
The result of the calculation was nought.
Often appears as...
- nought point
- multiplied by nought
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Academic
noun
Nothing or none.
All his efforts came to nought.
Often appears as...
- come to nought
- all for nought
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Formal
noun
Something that has no value or importance.
His promises mean nought to me.
Often appears as...
- mean nought
- worth nought
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Formal
Colloquial
noun
The digit 0 or zero.
The result of the calculation was nought.
Often appears as...
- nought point
- multiplied by nought
Usage tips
Academic
noun
Nothing or none.
All his efforts came to nought.
Often appears as...
- come to nought
- all for nought
Usage tips
Formal
noun
Something that has no value or importance.
His promises mean nought to me.
Often appears as...
- mean nought
- worth nought
Usage tips
Formal
Colloquial
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Pro Tip 1/3Mathematical Zero
Used to represent the number zero, especially in mathematical or scientific contexts.
When you multiply any number by nought, the result is always nought.
Pro Tip 2/3Decimal Fraction
Placed after a decimal to emphasize precision in measurements or statistics.
The value of pi is approximately 3.14159, but for simplicity, we often say 3.14.
Pro Tip 3/3Start Count
In a sequence or series, nought can indicate the starting point or zero level.
The thermometer reads nought degrees; it's freezing!
Pro Tip 1/3Mathematical Zero
Used to represent the number zero, especially in mathematical or scientific contexts.
When you multiply any number by nought, the result is always nought.
Pro Tip 2/3Decimal Fraction
Placed after a decimal to emphasize precision in measurements or statistics.
The value of pi is approximately 3.14159, but for simplicity, we often say 3.14.
Pro Tip 3/3Start Count
In a sequence or series, nought can indicate the starting point or zero level.
The thermometer reads nought degrees; it's freezing!
Pro Tip 1/3Mathematical Zero
Used to represent the number zero, especially in mathematical or scientific contexts.
When you multiply any number by nought, the result is always nought.
Pro Tip 2/3Decimal Fraction
Placed after a decimal to emphasize precision in measurements or statistics.
The value of pi is approximately 3.14159, but for simplicity, we often say 3.14.
Pro Tip 3/3Start Count
In a sequence or series, nought can indicate the starting point or zero level.
The thermometer reads nought degrees; it's freezing!
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Perspective is...
about 40 minutes for naught point oh one percent of this money you could have put Wi-Fi on the trains which wouldn't have reduced the duration of the journey but would have improved its enjoyment and its usefulness far more for maybe ten percent of the money you could have paid all of the world's top male and female supermodels to walk up and down the
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How tech companies can...
to help augment the contact-tracing systems. We wanted to do it in a way that was user-controlled and privacy-preserving and had technological features that would allow public health to augment the exposure log in a way that would accelerate the work that they needed to get done to interrupt transmission -- keep the R naught less than one --
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Daniel Wolpert: The real...
or with a time delay of two-tenths of three-tenths of a second. So the important point here is the right hand always does the same things -- sinusoidal movement. The left hand always is the same and puts sinusoidal tickle. All we're playing with is a tempo causality. And as we go from naught to 0.1 second, it becomes more ticklish.
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The real reason for...
delay over ten to ten or three tenths of a second so the important point here is the right hand always does the same thing sinusoidal movement the left hand always its same input sinusoidal tickle all playing with is a temporal causality and as we go from naught to point one second it becomes more ticklish as we're
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Why Are Plankton the...
animals they can be as small as nought point two micrometers and micrometer being a thousandth of a millimetre that's smaller than the diameter of a human hair now while plankton may appear to be aimless drifters directionless in their movements in life they play a key role
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Tagging the Great White...
messages promising to deliver the most important data on the great whites lifecycle to date but right now the Sharks time out of the water is their primary concern the most important job isn't the tagging it's the resuscitation if we don't do that it's all for naught
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Why architects need to...
not be pushing the boat out too far to suggest that many teachers are losing significant life expectancy by teaching in environments like that day after day what does it cost to treat a classroom down to that naught point for second reverberation time two and a half
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Paul Pholeros: How to...
We're really concerned with kids naught to five. And why? Washing is the antidote to the sort of bugs, the common infectious diseases of the eyes, the ears, the chest and the skin that, if they occur in the first five years of life,
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How does climate change...
degrees C on average pH will fall by naught point 4 units that doesn't sound much but that's over a hundred percent change and sea level will rise by nearly a meter not point eight plus but if we control our emissions urgently and
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Nora York: Singing "What...
I fly above the wind, and yet I cannot arise; And naught I have, and all the world I seize upon."
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Perspective is...
about 40 minutes for naught point oh one percent of this money you could have put Wi-Fi on the trains which wouldn't have reduced the duration of the journey but would have improved its enjoyment and its usefulness far more for maybe ten percent of the money you could have paid all of the world's top male and female supermodels to walk up and down the
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How tech companies can...
to help augment the contact-tracing systems. We wanted to do it in a way that was user-controlled and privacy-preserving and had technological features that would allow public health to augment the exposure log in a way that would accelerate the work that they needed to get done to interrupt transmission -- keep the R naught less than one --
Video examples
Daniel Wolpert: The real...
or with a time delay of two-tenths of three-tenths of a second. So the important point here is the right hand always does the same things -- sinusoidal movement. The left hand always is the same and puts sinusoidal tickle. All we're playing with is a tempo causality. And as we go from naught to 0.1 second, it becomes more ticklish.
Video examples
The real reason for...
delay over ten to ten or three tenths of a second so the important point here is the right hand always does the same thing sinusoidal movement the left hand always its same input sinusoidal tickle all playing with is a temporal causality and as we go from naught to point one second it becomes more ticklish as we're
Video examples
Why Are Plankton the...
animals they can be as small as nought point two micrometers and micrometer being a thousandth of a millimetre that's smaller than the diameter of a human hair now while plankton may appear to be aimless drifters directionless in their movements in life they play a key role
Video examples
Tagging the Great White...
messages promising to deliver the most important data on the great whites lifecycle to date but right now the Sharks time out of the water is their primary concern the most important job isn't the tagging it's the resuscitation if we don't do that it's all for naught
Video examples
Why architects need to...
not be pushing the boat out too far to suggest that many teachers are losing significant life expectancy by teaching in environments like that day after day what does it cost to treat a classroom down to that naught point for second reverberation time two and a half
Video examples
Paul Pholeros: How to...
We're really concerned with kids naught to five. And why? Washing is the antidote to the sort of bugs, the common infectious diseases of the eyes, the ears, the chest and the skin that, if they occur in the first five years of life,
Video examples
How does climate change...
degrees C on average pH will fall by naught point 4 units that doesn't sound much but that's over a hundred percent change and sea level will rise by nearly a meter not point eight plus but if we control our emissions urgently and
Video examples
Nora York: Singing "What...
I fly above the wind, and yet I cannot arise; And naught I have, and all the world I seize upon."
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Jeremy Grantham
British Businessman
One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
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William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
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Max Muller
German Educator
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
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Ignatius of Antioch
Roman Clergyman
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Lord Byron
British Poet
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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Pierre Corneille
French Dramatist
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
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Petrarch
Italian Poet
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Jeremy Grantham
British Businessman
One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
Quote examples
William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Quote examples
Max Muller
German Educator
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
Quote examples
Ignatius of Antioch
Roman Clergyman
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
Quote examples
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Quote examples
Lord Byron
British Poet
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Quote examples
Pierre Corneille
French Dramatist
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Quote examples
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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Emma Goldman
Russian Activist
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
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Petrarch
Italian Poet
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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