nought
pronunciation
How to pronounce nought in British English:
UK [nɔːt]
How to pronounce nought in American English:
US [nɔːt]
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- Noun:
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
Word Origin
- nought
- nought: see not
- nought (n.)
- Old English nowiht "nothing," variant of nawiht (see naught). Meaning "zero, cipher" is from early 15c. Expression for nought "in vain" is late 13c. To come to nought is from 1590s.
Example
- 1. Attempts to end the price war have come to nought .
- 2. If thou must love me , let it be for nought
- 3. Being however is an absolute absence of attributes , and so is nought .
- 4. The elements whose unity constitute mind are not the bare abstracts of being and nought , but the system of the logical idea and of nature .
- 5. But if to have no notion merely means that we cannot represent in imagination the oneness of being and nought , the statement is far from being true ; for everyone has countless ways of envisaging this unity .