nonzero

See also: non-zero

English

Alternative forms

• non-zero

Etymology

non- +‎ zero

Adjective

nonzero (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, of a quantity) Not equal to zero.

   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]:

     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)
• Japanese: 非零 (hirei), 非ゼロ (hizero)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: niezerowy m
• Portuguese: não nulo
• Romanian: nenul
• Russian: ненулево́й (ru) (nenulevój)
• Serbo-Croatian: nenulti m
• 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