Usually means: Vulnerability unknown to software maker.
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  1. zero-day: Merriam-Webster
  2. zero-day: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. zero-day: The Word Spy
  4. Zero-Day, Zero-day, zero-day: Wordnik
  5. zero-day: Wiktionary
  6. zero-day: Dictionary.com

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  1. zero-day: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (zero-day)

adjective:  (computing) Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.
adjective:  (computing) Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
adjective:  (computing) Of an exploit or its threat or an attack, benefiting from a newly found and yet unpatched or unmitigated flaw in software or hardware; using a zero-day vulnerability.
adjective:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
noun:  (computing, idiomatic) A vulnerability that has been discovered recently, and is yet unpatched or unmitigated; a zero-day vulnerability.

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