nonzero

See also: non-zero

English

Alternative forms

• non-zero

Etymology

Etymology tree

English non-

English zero

English nonzero

From non- + zero.

Adjective

nonzero (not comparable)

1. (mathematics) Of a quantity, not equal to zero.

   Hyponyms: negative, positive

   a nonzero Hopf number

2. (informal) Of an unspecified positive quantity.

   a nonzero chance of victory

   • 2020 November 11, “Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 November 2020:

     Under sharp questioning from Judge Paul S. Diamond, however, they conceded that Trump in fact had “a nonzero number of people in the room,” leaving Diamond audibly exasperated.

Translations

not equal to zero

• Czech: nenulový m
• Finnish: ei-nolla (uncommon, more common to say joka ei ole nolla "that is not zero")
• French: non nul, différent de zéro
• German: nichtnull (only predicatively or compounding), ungleich Null (postpositioned)
• Hindi: अशून्य (hi) (aśūnya)
• Hungarian: nemnulla (hu), nemzérus
• Japanese: 非零 (hirei), 非ゼロ (hizero)
• Polish: niezerowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: não nulo
• Romanian: nenul
• Russian: ненулево́й (ru) (nenulevój)
• Serbo-Croatian: nenulti m
• Spanish: no nulo, distinto de cero
• Swedish: nollskild (sv)

Noun

nonzero (plural nonzeroes or nonzeros)

1. A quantity which is not zero.

   The function has 1074 nonzeros.

See also

• nonnegative
• nonpositive
• nonvanishing