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zeroise

zeroise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zeroize.

Meaning of zeroize

Verb

zeroize (third-person singular simple present zeroizes, present participle zeroizing, simple past and past participle zeroized)

  1. (nonstandard) To set, reset, or initialize something (especially a variable or parameter) to zero.
    • The ENCRYPT switches located on panel O7 control the integrity of the Y-code key within each receiver. In NORM, the key is kept intact such that it can be used to decode the Y-code signals being sent by the NAVSTAR satellites. If this switch is moved to the ZEROIZE position, the key will be erased...2008 December 15, NASA, “2.13 Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)”, in Shuttle Crew Operations Manual (PDF), archived from the original on 02 Jan 2023, Global Positioning System, pages 2.13-21
    Synonyms:
    zero

Forms of zeroise

third-person singular presentzeroises
present participlezeroising
past participlezeroised
pastzeroised

Origin of zeroise

From zero + -ise.

Questions about zeroise

What is zeroise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Zeroise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zeroize.

Words near zeroise in the dictionary

  1. zeroing
  2. zeroing in
  3. zeroing out
  4. zeroings
  5. zeroisation
  6. zeroise
  7. zeroised
  8. zeroises
  9. zeroising
  10. zeroism
  11. zeroist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zeroise (page history and authors); zeroize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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