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zero-based

adjective

Meaning

  1. Of a budget or budgeting system: such that every expense needs to be approved every year, without the possibility of automatically accepting something because of its prior existence.
  2. Of an array or list: such the first element of the array or list is called the "zeroth".

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  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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