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Zero se Restart

Zero se Restart (जीरो से रिस्टार्ट) is a 2024 Hindi documentary by Jaskunwar Kohli, produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, documenting the making of 12th Fail; it premiered at IFFI Goa, released 13 December 2024, and streams on Prime Video.

Zero sharp

Zero sharp (0#) is a real number in set theory whose existence, a large-cardinal hypothesis, implies the universe V is very different from the constructible universe L.

Zero Time Dilemma

Zero Time Dilemma (Zero Escape: Toki no Dilemma) is a 2016 adventure game by Chime, the third Zero Escape entry by Kotaro Uchikoshi, set in 2028 between 999 and Virtue's Last Reward, told in non-linear 90-minute memory-wiped fragments with a Decision Game requiring six deaths.

Zero to Hero (妈妈的神奇小子)

Zero to Hero (媽媽的神奇小子) is a 2021 Hong Kong biographical sports drama directed by Jimmy Wan, produced by and starring Sandra Ng, based on Paralympic sprinter So Wa-wai and his mother; Hong Kong's 94th Academy Awards submission.

Zero to the power of zero

Zero to the power of zero, written 0⁰, is the expression with both base and exponent zero, defined as 1 in combinatorics and computing standards but indeterminate in real analysis.

Zero tolerance

Zero tolerance, or a zero-tolerance policy, is a school discipline approach mandating predetermined consequences like suspension or expulsion for specific offenses, regardless of gravity or context.

Zero Trust

Zero Trust is a cybersecurity approach that trusts no user, device, or network segment by default, requiring every access request to be authenticated and continuously verified.

Zero trust model

The zero trust model is a cybersecurity architecture that grants access only after continuous verification of every user, device, and connection, summarized as "never trust, always verify."

Zero Two (ゼロツー)

Zero Two (ゼロツー), Code:002, is the female lead of the anime DARLING in the FRANXX: a human-klaxosaur hybrid pistil of Strelizia, partnered with Hiro, nicknamed Partner Killer; distinct from Kamen Rider Zero-Two.

Zero Units

Zero Units: CIA-trained, NDS-affiliated Afghan intelligence and paramilitary strike forces (Units 01-04) formed around 2008; known for night raids, documented abuses, and U.S. resettlement after 2021.

Zero waste

Zero waste, or waste free, is a goal and management framework to conserve resources through responsible production, reuse, and recovery, with no burning or harmful discharges.

Zero- to ultralow-field NMR

Zero- to ultralow-field NMR (ZULF NMR) is a modality of nuclear magnetic resonance in magnetic fields of microtesla strength or below, where J-couplings dominate and detection relies on atomic magnetometers.

Zero-backlash gearbox

A zero-backlash gearbox is a speed reducer engineered to have no lost motion when rotation reverses, used in robot joints, telescope drives, and semiconductor equipment.

Zero-based budgeting

Zero-based budgeting is a budgeting method in which every expense is justified from zero each cycle, championed by Peter Pyhrr at Texas Instruments and used by President Carter.

Zero-based numbering

Zero-based numbering, also called zero-based indexing, is the convention of counting a sequence from zero rather than one, standard in C-family languages and defended by Dijkstra's 1982 note EWD 831.

Zero-bias conductance peak

A zero-bias conductance peak is a peak in differential conductance at zero voltage in a superconductor tunnel junction, the most reported signature of Majorana zero modes.

Zero-copy

Zero-copy is a data-transfer technique in which the CPU does not copy buffer contents between memory regions, instead letting hardware access the original memory directly.

Zero-copy cloning

Zero-copy cloning creates instant logical copies of tables, schemas, databases, or files by copying only metadata or pointers; Snowflake, Fabric, Databricks, YugabyteDB, OpenZFS, and ReFS implement it with copy-on-write divergence and point-in-time variants.

Zero-current switching

Zero-current switching (ZCS) is a soft-switching technique in power electronics in which a resonant circuit forces a semiconductor switch to turn off when its current reaches zero, cutting losses and EMI.

Zero-day vulnerability

A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw in hardware, firmware, or software that is unknown to the vendor, leaving no patch available; exploiting it is a zero-day attack.

Zero-dispersion wavelength

The zero-dispersion wavelength (λ₀) is the wavelength at which an optical fiber's chromatic dispersion crosses zero, so all wavelengths travel at the same group velocity; in standard single-mode fiber it lies near 1310 nm.

Zero-emission certificate (New Jersey)

A zero-emission certificate (ZEC) was a New Jersey instrument, created in 2018, funding nuclear plants Salem 1, Salem 2, and Hope Creek through a customer charge.

Zero-emission credit (Illinois)

A zero-emission credit is a tradable Illinois credit for electricity from nuclear plants, created by the 2016 Future Energy Jobs Act and procured from the Quad Cities and Clinton plants.

Zero-energy building

A zero-energy building, also called a net-zero building, is a highly efficient building that produces enough renewable energy over a year to meet or exceed its own consumption.

Zero-error capacity of quantum channels

The zero-error capacity of a quantum channel is the rate, in bits per channel use, at which messages can be sent with error probability exactly zero, analyzed via noncommutative graphs.

Zero-ETL

Zero-ETL: data integration without manually built ETL pipelines, using managed CDC replication or federated querying. Led by AWS (Aurora-to-Redshift, announced 2022, GA November 7, 2023); latency seconds to minutes; limited to same-cloud, simple-replication cases.

Zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance

Zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance, part of the broader ZULF NMR family, is a form of NMR without a strong applied field, detecting internal spin-spin couplings directly.

Zero-field splitting

Zero-field splitting (ZFS) is the splitting of spin energy levels in systems with multiple unpaired electrons, arising from spin–spin and spin–orbit coupling, studied in EPR.

Zero-fluoroscopy catheter ablation

Zero-fluoroscopy catheter ablation is a cardiac electrophysiology technique that replaces X-ray guidance with electroanatomic mapping and intracardiac echocardiography, avoiding radiation and proving as safe and effective as conventional ablation.

Zero-forcing detector

The zero-forcing detector is a linear signal detector in MIMO and multiuser receivers that removes interference completely, using the Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse of the estimated channel matrix.