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meanless en · ADJ

Etymology

From mean + -less.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Meaningless, lacking meaning.
   • The window here, and there the door annoys, Then frequent repetitions tire the ear Of meanless speeches, dull and insincere. 1815, Charlotte Nooth, A dish of tea!:
   • Harp continued to find receivers open and the Eagles added several meanless touchdowns in the last half of the game. 2007 October 23, Marvin Hogan, “Eagles soar past Leopards”, in Gainesville Daily Register:
2. (error-lua-exec, not-comparable) Having no (mathematical) mean, or having a mean of zero.
   • In particular: i) the average is used to get a meanless dataset, as specified in sect. 20; […] 2004, La Rivista del Nuovo cimento, Società italiana di fisica, page 35:
   • Another unfailing “mean” to characterize such meanless distributions is the logarithmic mean […] 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:

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