English-French translations for nought

• zéro
  Il n' y a que des uns et des zéros. It is only noughts and ones anyway.
  Personnellement, je préférerais que celui-ci soit fixé à zéro pour cent. Personally I would prefer to see a nought percent set-aside.
  Sur la base d’une simple analyse graphologique qui révélait que ses zéros étaient un peu plus petits que les autres chiffres, il a été immédiatement placé en détention. On the basis of a simple handwriting analysis that revealed that his noughts were slightly smaller than the other numbers, he was immediately remanded in custody.

Definition of nought

• Nothing; something which does not exist
• Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game
• The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero
• Good for nothing; worthless
• Wicked, immoral
• To abase, to set at nought
• To no extent; in no way; not at all
• Nothing; zero

Examples

• 0.4 — nought point four / zero point four

Related words

• dreadnought
• noughties
• pre-dreadnought
• fearnought
• noughth
• noughts and crosses