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Definition of nought

nought
Naught Naught, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n?wiht, n?uht, n?ht; ne not + ? ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.] 1. Nothing. [Written also nought.] Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9. 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. ``Ye have set at naught all my counsel.' --Prov. i. 25.
Nought
Nought Nought, n. & adv. See Naught. --Chaucer.

Meaning of nought from wikipedia

- used by the Maya. Common names for the number 0 in English include zero, nought, naught (/nɔːt/), and nil. In contexts where at least one adjacent digit...
- Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two...
- Noughts & Crosses is a series of young adult novels by British author Malorie Blackman, with six novels and three novellas. The series is speculative...
- Look up noughts and crosses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Noughts & Crosses is an alternative name for the game Tic-tac-toe Noughts & Crosses may...
- Noughts + Crosses is a British drama television series based on the Noughts & Crosses novel series by Malorie Blackman. The series is set in an alternative...
- may have been an inspiration. or 'nought' or 'things' or 'Came' Nims, Margaret Frances. "Say not the Struggle nought Availeth". Representative Poetry Online...
- "Zero" is the usual name for the number 0 in English. In British English "nought" is also used and in American English "naught" is used occasionally for...
- A Zed & Two Noughts is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. This film was Greenaway's first collaboration with cinematographer Sacha Vierny...
- Holidays in Europe (The Naughty Nought) is the second and last studio album by the Icelandic post-punk group ****l, released on January 24, 1986, by Cr****...
- letter aleph (ℵ). The cardinality of the natural numbers is ℵ0 (read aleph-nought or aleph-zero or aleph-null), the next larger cardinality of a well-ordered...