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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

informationless en · ADJ

Etymology

From information + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Devoid of information; meaningless.
    • A good example of an informationless key is a UUID (essentially a random 128 bit value, guaranteed to be unique) which is typically displayed as hex string. 2008, Marc Brevoort, Growing Better Software:
    • ...compress the data into more manageable chunks (eg, using signal-to-noise eigenmodes to get rid of informationless noisy components of the map). 2004, Robert G Crittenden, Neil Turok, Structure formation in the Universe:
    • And what is an informationless word in one language can be very useful in another language or context... 1998, Roger Hersch, Jacques André, Heather Brown, Electronic publishing, artistic imaging, and digital typography:

Deriveds

informationlessness