zero prefix
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Etymology
Noun
zero prefix (plural zero prefixes)
- (UK, telephony) The digit 0 that begins all telephone numbers in the United Kingdom, which is substituted for the country code in the event of international calls.
- (linguistic morphology) A prefix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a prefix where one might otherwise be expected (for example, as one of several inflections that a stem can take, or the reduction of a historically vocalised prefix to the point that it is inaudible).
- Synonym: null prefix
- Coordinate term: zero suffix
See also
- ∅- (representation of the zero prefix in linguistics)
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