English

Adjective

meanless ‎(comparative more meanless, superlative most meanless)

1. (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.

2. (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 9780387521824, 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 978-981-02-1687-0, 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; […]

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