nonzero
adjective
non·ze·ro
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Definition of nonzero
1
: being, having, or involving a value other than zero
2
: having phonetic content
nonzero affixes
Examples of nonzero in a Sentence
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At 16, Scholze learned that a decade earlier Andrew Wiles had proved the famous 17th-century problem known as Fermat’s Last Theorem, which says that the equation xn + yn = zn has no nonzero whole-number solutions if n is greater than two. — Quanta Magazine, "The Oracle of Arithmetic," 28 June 2016 In these theories, the graviton has a very small but nonzero mass. — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, "Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein’s Theory of Gravity," 6 May 2018 There’s no mechanism within the Standard Model by which neutrinos might acquire their tiny, nonzero masses. — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, "New Neutrino Anomaly Hints at a Matter-Antimatter Rift," 31 July 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nonzero.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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