How to pronounce “ground zero”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• (by extension) The location of any disaster or violent assault.
• (figuratively) The point at which something begins.

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