ground zero

Significado (Inglés)

1. (countable, uncountable) Originally, the point on the land or water surface below which a nuclear bomb detonates in the air; now also the point on such a surface at or above the detonation.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The location of any disaster or violent assault.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The point at which something begins.

Conceptos

punto cero

tierra cero

zona cero

Sinónimos

hypocenter

centre of explosion

center of explosion

hypocentre

burst point

Traducciones

point zéro

Bodennullpunkt

Ground Zero

maalde nul

Boden null

terra zero

la terre zéro

terra zero

solum nihil

terra nihil

ponto de impacto

نقطة الصفر

yer sıfır noktası

Nullpunkt

Hypozentrum

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˌɡɹaʊnd ˈzɪəɹəʊ/

Etimología (Inglés)

From ground + zero, first attested in a June 1946 a report by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on August 6 and 9, 1945, during World War II. “Zero” was used as the code name for the location of the Trinity atomic bomb test – the first detonation of a nuclear weapon – in New Mexico, USA, on July 16, 1945.