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1894 Jrnl. U.S. Artillery Oct. 723 Some means for standardizing or zeroizing the instrument when in use is desirable.

1914 E. M. Horsburgh Mod. Instruments & Methods Calculation 87 Mr. Trinks has invented a device which disengages the pawls from the number wheels when the latter are being zeroised.

1945 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 671/1 It is said to enable operational errors to be rectified in a matter of moments, and the calculations to be continued without the waste of time involved by ‘zeroising’ the machine and restarting the calculations from the beginning.

1974 Software World 5 v. 12 Integer Function JCV12C converts a positive integer L (L < 256) to a character in A1 format, zeroizing bits 24 to 1.

2005 J. A. Stout Hammer from Above xvi. 164 If a bird went down, the operating procedure was to attempt to recover the crew, and then destroy the aircraft after zeroizing the crypto equipment in the radios.

1903 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Class 100, Printing, Letterpress & Lithographic 1897–1900 464 ‘Zeroizing’ is effected by turning the shaft in the direction of the arrow.

1956 G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines ii. 28 The other major control is the zeroizing or clearance key or handle at the right-hand side of the keyboard.

2002 R. J. Sutton Secure Communications iii. 69 An emergency clear function should be implemented to allow for the ‘zeroising’ of all secret keys in case of the immediate danger of the ship being boarded.