| Subject | English | Chinese Taiwan |
| comp., MS | leading zero | 前置字元為零 (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 " 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." | 零 Bug 出現 (ZBB) |
| comp., MS | zero bug release The first release to testing after all active bugs have been resolved | 零 Bug 版本 (ZBR) |
| comp., MS | zero defect state | 零缺失狀態 (A point in the product cycle when the code does not generate errors that break a build) |
| comp., MS | zero insertion force socket | ZIF 插槽 (A type of socket design that does not require the CPU chip to be forcefully pushed into the socket) |
| comp., MS | zero-length string | 零長度字串 (A string that contains no characters) |
| comp., MS | zero power ODD | 零耗電量 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 | 零耗電量光碟機 (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) |