the area directly under any exploding bomb (though especially an atomic device), Ground Zero became a proper noun to describe the devastated site of the collapsed World Trade Center towers.
the target of a projectile (as a bomb or missile)
the site of the World Trade Center before it was destroyed
the point of detonation (or above or below) of a nuclear weapon
The center point of a world, coordinates 0N 0W (0 North, 0 West), default landing point
the default entry point into a virtual world.
The point on the ground or directly above at which a nuclear weapon has exploded.
Originally, the point of a nuclear explosion, it has come to mean the center of rapid or violent activity or change, as in the case of the World Trade Center site.
name given the World Trade Center site after the attack.
point on the ground directly under a nuclear explosion.
A heavily contested region nestled at a point where the territories of the three races intersect. Ground Zero is the localized term for this area, as it is dominated by a wide central impact crater with what appears to be an alien spacecraft or artifact of some sort at the center. The region is also heavily Contaminated, and represents some of the highest concentrations of Contamination anywhere in the Central Wastelands.
The central point of a nuclear detonation (or other large blast). Refers to the point on the ground below or above a nuclear detonation if the device is triggered in the air or underground.
Ground zero is the exact location on the ground where any explosion occurs. The term has often been associated with nuclear explosions, but is also used in relation to earthquake epicenter, epidemics and other disasters to mark the point of the most severe damage or destruction. Damage gradually decreases with distance from this point.
Ground Zero was an improvised experimental noise rock band during the 1990s led by Otomo Yoshihide that had a large and rotating group of performers on such instruments as turntables, sampler, shamisen, saxophone, koto, omnichord, electric guitar and two drum kits. They are most highly regarded for their album Consume Red, on which the performers improvise around a short sample of hojok music played by Korean holy musician Kim Seok Chul.
Ground Zero is a blues club in Clarksdale, Mississippi that is co-owned by Morgan Freeman and local attorney Bill Luckett. It got its name from the fact that Clarksdale has been historically referred to as "Ground Zero" for the blues. It opened in 2001 and is located right next to the Delta Blues Museum.
