zeroablehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zeroable_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezeroable, adj.
Revised 2018

zeroableadjective

  1. 1.
    1956–
    Of an instrument or device: capable of being adjusted to give a zero reading, esp. for the purposes of calibration.
    1. 1956
      To render said device zeroable upon proper adjustment of said tap.
      U.S. Patent 2,762,976 8
    2. 1974
      A zeroable offset counter system is provided which makes it easy for the operator to measure the angular error between the ground reference face and the crystallographic planes.
      Physics Bulletin August 349/1
    3. 2003
      11-amp router features a precision-machined motor, 8 slotted collets, adjustable motor cam lock and zeroable scale.
      Daily Republican Reg. (Mt. Carmel, Illinois) 25 November (Advertising Supplement) f3/1
  2. 2.
    1965–
    Linguistics. That may be omitted from a sentence without loss of meaning.
    Frequently in or with reference to the works of the U.S. linguist Zellig Harris (1909–92).
    1. 1965
      Metaphorical and idiomatic objects are not pronounable or zeroable.
      Z. S. Harris in Language vol. 41 395
    2. 1982
      It is only after the metalinguistic last sentence is added that the second boys is zeroable.
      Z. Harris in L. J. Cohen et al., Logic, Methodol. & Philos. Sci. VI 632
    3. 2010
      All anaphoric and epiphoric reference is handled by the same sort of zeroable metalinguistic sameness statement.
      B. Nevin in D. A. Kibbee, Chomskyan (R) evolutions i. 146

zeroable, adj. was revised in June 2018.

zeroable, adj. was last modified in July 2023.