Zero

Zero, is a lowest point or lowest in order, Webster's Third New International Dictionary.It is a mathematical value, intermediate between negative and positive values, Random House Dictionary of English Language.Zero, represents the lowest point of degree of the lowest number of votes which can be possibly be obtained by a candidate, Shrimikar v. Keshri Chand, AIR 1984 Raj 14 (18). [Rajasthan Municipalities (Election of Chairman,Vice-Chairman, President and Vice-President) Rules (1959), R. 10(8)(a)(ii)]Zero, undoubtedly has a mathematical value inter-mediate between positive and negative values. Every member of the board has one vote and if a duly nominated candidate does not receive the vote of even one of the members, then he would be considered to have obtained zero vote, because votes have to be counted in terms of number, Shriniwas v. Keshri Chand, AIR 1984 Raj 14....

zero bracket amount

zero bracket amount : a deduction from gross income that was permitted for federal taxpayers and reflected in tax tables until its replacement by the standard deduction in 1986 ...

zero-coupon bond

zero-coupon bond see bond ...

Zero coupon bond

Zero coupon bond. means a bond:(a) issued by any infrastructure capital company or infrastructure capital fund or public sector company on or after the 1st day of June, 2005;(b) in respect of which no payment and benefit is received or receivable before maturity or redemption from infrastructure capital company or infrastructure capital fund or public sector com-pany; and(c) which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 2(48)]....

Zero hour

Zero hour, is usually a noisy interregnum between the question hour and the beginning of the rest of the day's business in a legislature; member raise often without notice, various matters during this period, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 2005, p. 491....

Goose egg

In games a zero a score or record of naught so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0 Called also duck egg...

STRIP

STRIP pl: STRIPs [separate trading of registered interest and principal of securities] : a Treasury security that entitles the investor usually to payment of interest or principal exclusively and that is registered in a Federal Reserve bank under a federal program that provides for such separate trading of the components of U.S. Treasury obligations compare zero-coupon bond at bond ...

ZBA

ZBA zero bracket amount ...

Becks scale

A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp gr 100 and the 30deg point to sp gr 085 From these points the scale is extended both ways all the degrees being of equal length...

Ether

A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity once supposed to pervade all space the interior of solid bodies not excepted and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat hence often called luminiferous ether It is no longer believed that such a medium is required for the transmission of electromagnetic waves the modern use of the term is mostly a figurative term for empty space or for literary effect and not intended to imply the actual existence of a physical medium However modern cosmological theories based on quantum field theory do not rule out the possibility that the inherent energy of the vacuum is greater than zero in which case the concept of an ether pervading the vacuum may have more than metaphoric meaning...

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