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  • noun Plural form of zero.
  • noun rare The decade of the 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, etc. The noughties. The 2000s.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of zero.

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Examples

  • Mrs. Heffley, enigmatic behind the twin zeroes of her spectacles, is a shrewd dispenser of domestic justice, while Mr. H (a Civil War nut) tends to do his parenting in lunges of impetuous dad-ness.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • Mrs. Heffley, enigmatic behind the twin zeroes of her spectacles, is a shrewd dispenser of domestic justice, while Mr. H (a Civil War nut) tends to do his parenting in lunges of impetuous dad-ness.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • Mrs. Heffley, enigmatic behind the twin zeroes of her spectacles, is a shrewd dispenser of domestic justice, while Mr. H (a Civil War nut) tends to do his parenting in lunges of impetuous dad-ness.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • Mrs. Heffley, enigmatic behind the twin zeroes of her spectacles, is a shrewd dispenser of domestic justice, while Mr. H (a Civil War nut) tends to do his parenting in lunges of impetuous dad-ness.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • A few months earlier, New Scotland Yard had learned from the Department of Homeland Security about the two stolen credit-card numbers that had been given to Loock to set up the strange sites with names in zeroes and ones.

    Jihad 2.0 2006

  • A few months earlier, New Scotland Yard had learned from the Department of Homeland Security about the two stolen credit-card numbers that had been given to Loock to set up the strange sites with names in zeroes and ones.

    Jihad 2.0 2006

  • SupRip to get the subtitles into SRT format, then I have to edit that because the final subtitle time is always wrong in what SupRip produces (it uses an end code of all zeroes, which is wrong) and it causes some MKV programs to choke.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • Welcome to a new year, the second to last of the "zeroes" decade or third to last, if you're the type of person who usually sits in the corner at parties wondering why no one will talk to you, like I am.

    What I Want to Read on Your Blog in 2008 2008

  • Welcome to a new year, the second to last of the "zeroes" decade or third to last, if you're the type of person who usually sits in the corner at parties wondering why no one will talk to you, like I am.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • When a quantum computer is put to work on a problem, it considers all possible answers by simultaneously arranging its qubits into every combination of "zeroes" and "ones."

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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