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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zero \Ze"ro\, n.; pl. Zeros or Zeroes . [F. z['e]ro, from Ar. (Arith.) A cipher; nothing; naught. The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences. Note: Zero in the Centigrade, or Celsius thermometer, and in the R['e]aumur ...
Wikipedia
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Absolute Zero is a 1978 children's novel by Helen Cresswell , the second book in the Bagthorpe Saga .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All matter at temperatures above that of absolute zero emits infrared radiation. ▪ And those which are work only at temperatures close to absolute zero . ▪ Kobe Steel supplied the liquid-helium refrigerator for super-chilling ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics English) The coldest possible temperature, zero on the Kelvin scale, or approximately −273.15 °C, −459.67 °F; total absence of heat; temperature at which motion of all molecules would cease. (First attested in the early 19 th century.) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (cryogenics) the lowest temperature theoretically attainable (at which the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules is minimal); 0 Kelvin or -273.15 Centigrade or -459.67 Fahrenheit
Usage examples of absolute zero.
They vanish at once: liquid hydrogen, perhaps, to keep certain parts near absolute zero?
In this paper they made the remarkable prediction that radiation (in the form of photons) from the very hot early stages of the universe should still be around today, but with its temperature reduced to only a few degrees above absolute zero (–.
Illescue had still to raise his voice, but the temperature in the conference room seemed to hover within a degree or two of absolute zero Kelvin.
What we observe is a dense object several tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter, at just a couple of hundred degrees above absolute zero.
The steam, incredibly hot as it was, would strike metal that was at nearly absolute zero.
Heat, caused by compression and friction, warmed ice and rock that had slumbered near absolute zero since long before the first living thing had emerged from Earth’.
Mass migrated until, by the end of the process, a billion trillion years down the line, the star was a single crystal of iron crushed down into a sphere a few thousand kilometers in diameter, spinning slowly in a cold vacuum only trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.
The continued existence of a Bose-Einstein Condensate of the required magnitude, sentient or not, called for temperatures sustained within a few billionths of a degree of absolute zero.
Exposed only to that hushed nothingness, enclosed by the great ship and so kept within a few degrees of absolute zero, the bodies of the dead could lie undisturbed and uncorrupted by nothing more than whatever had killed them and by the effects of their slow or sudden freezing, for aeons.
A Lunar scientist named William Pierce tried to reduce the temperature of a small sample of copper atoms to absolute zero.
Our universe cannot contain something of infinite length and mass, nor could a particle at absolute zero remain fixed in our perceptions of space or time.
This is a furious, degenerate form of matter, occurring at temperatures near absolute zero.