"All my efforts to swim fifty lengths of the swimming baths came to naught when, half way, I suffered from severe cramp in my left leg and had to stop!"
Example sentence - His efforts were for naught as he had been given the wrong map.
Their efforts came to naught when they lost the papers. Naught means nothing or zero.
Steven tried his hardest, but it was all for naught, as Tyler won the race in the end.
Though both are acceptable it is more common to use 'nought'. Naught is somewhat archaic and would refer more to an action. Such as in, "His efforts came to naught."
Division by naught (Zero) is undefined.
Basically means nothing except for love can....rest of sentence.
It means that it was all for nothing. Naught means nothing.
Sigma naught = 1 / (mu naught * c^2)
Naught is a noun.
You can use it instead of nothing. All his labor was for nought, the tree died anyway. All his labor was for nothing, the tree died anyway. I have nought but the clothes on my back and the cardboard box I sleep in. I have nothing but the clothes on my back and the cardboard box I sleep in.
0 + 0 - 0 x 728 = 0
It means that it was all for nothing. Naught means nothing.