Meanless

Origin

From mean + -less.

Full definition of meanless

Adjective

1. (archaic) Meaningless, lacking meaning.
• 1815, Charlotte Nooth, A dish of tea! Chapter , 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, 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,

• ... is stopped ($n\_k=0$) if either the estimation error is within a "dead zone" ($\backslash left\; |\; c\_k\; \backslash right\; |\; \backslash le\; \backslash left\; |\; \backslash delta\_\{kp\}\; \backslash right\; |$), or the arrival data are meanless ($\backslash gamma\_k=0$).
• 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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