nonzero

See also: non-zero

English

Alternative forms

non-zero

Etymology

non- +‎ zero

Adjective

nonzero (not comparable)

(mathematics, of a quantity) Not equal to zero.
nonzero Hopf number
(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:
  
  a nonzero number of people in the room

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
German: nichtnull (only predicatively or compounding), ungleich Null (postpositioned)
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
Swedish: nollskild (sv)

Noun

nonzero (plural nonzeroes or nonzeros)

A quantity which is not zero.
The function has 1074 nonzeros.

See also

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