meanless
English
Etymology
From mean + -less.
Adjective
meanless (comparative more meanless, superlative most meanless)
- (archaic) Meaningless, lacking meaning.
- 1815, Charlotte Nooth, A dish of tea!:
- The window here, and there the door annoys, Then frequent repetitions tire the ear Of meanless speeches, dull and insincere.
- 2007 October 23, Marvin Hogan, “Eagles soar past Leopards”, in Gainesville Daily Register:
- Harp continued to find receivers open and the Eagles added several meanless touchdowns in the last half of the game.
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- (not comparable, mathematics) Having no (mathematical) mean, or having a mean of zero.
- 1990, in Experimental Robotics I: The First International Symposium Montreal,, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 208:
- […] is stopped () if either the estimation error is within a "dead zone" (), or the arrival data are meanless ().
- 1994, M.R. Schroeder, “How to generate Thermal Photons – On the Computer”, in Gérard G. Emch et al. (editors), On Klauder’s Path: A Field Trip, World Scientific Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 199:
- Another unfailing “mean” to characterize such meanless distributions is the logarithmic mean […]
- 2004, in La Rivista del Nuovo cimento, Società italiana di fisica, page 35:
- In particular: i) the average is used to get a meanless dataset, as specified in sect. 20; […]
- 1990, in Experimental Robotics I: The First International Symposium Montreal,, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 208:
Anagrams
- Sleemans, lameness, maleness, maneless, nameless, salesmen