nought
noun/nɔːt/
/nɔːt/
- [countable, uncountable] (British English) (also zero North American English, British English)the figure 0
- A million is written with six noughts.
- nought point one (= written 0.1)
- I give the programme nought out of ten for humour.
- This car can accelerate from nought to sixty in ten seconds.
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- (also naught)[uncountable] (literary) used in particular phrases to mean ‘nothing’
- All our efforts have come to nought (= have not been successful).
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