| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | leading zero | 前导零 (A zero that precedes the most significant (leftmost) digit of a number. One or more leading zeros may be used as fill characters in a field containing numeric input. Leading zeros have no significance in the value of a number) |
| comp., MS | zero bug bounce | 零 Bug 反弹 (" The first point in time after a milestone (typically code complete) that there are no active bugs accepted by the triage meetings that are older a specified amount of time (typically between 3 hours and 3 days). It is referred to as bounce because bugs checked in can cause regressions and these regressions can cause the number of bugs to "bounce" back up from zero.") |
| comp., MS | zero bug release | 零 Bug 发布 (The first release to testing after all active bugs have been resolved) |
| comp., MS | zero defect state | 零缺陷状态 (A point in the product cycle when the code does not generate errors that break a build) |
| comp., MS | Zero Download Messenger | 零下载信使 (A Web-based tool that enables mail recipients to decrypt and reply to encrypted e-mail messages that are sent from the Hosted Encryption service) |
| comp., MS | zero insertion force socket | 零插拔力套接字 (A type of socket design that does not require the CPU chip to be forcefully pushed into the socket) |
| comp., MS | zero-length string | 零长度字符串 (A string that contains no characters) |
| comp., MS | zero power ODD | 零耗电 ODD (Pertaining to the ability to reduce the power consumption of optical disk drives in the operating system to zero to save energy when the drives are not in use) |
| comp., MS | zero power optical disk drive | 零耗电光驱 (Pertaining to the ability to reduce the power consumption of optical disk drives in the operating system to zero to save energy when the drives are not in use) |
| comp., MS | zero-rated | 零点税率 (Denotes products for which the buyer pays no value-added tax (VAT) and for which the seller can recover the cost of the input tax levied on the sale) |