meanless

English

From mean +‎ -less.

meanless (comparative more meanless, superlative most meanless)

(archaic) Meaningless, lacking meaning.
- 1815, Charlotte Nooth, A dish of tea!‎^[1]:
  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^[2]:
  Harp continued to find receivers open and the Eagles added several meanless touchdowns in the last half of the game.
(not comparable, mathematics) Having no (mathematical) mean, or having a mean of zero.
- 1990, in Experimental Robotics I: The First International Symposium Montreal,^[3], Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 208:
  […] is stopped ( $n_{k}=0$ ) if either the estimation error is within a "dead zone" ( $\left|c_{k}\right|\leq \left|\delta _{kp}\right|$ ), or the arrival data are meanless ( $\gamma _{k}=0$ ).
- 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, page 199:
  Another unfailing “mean” to characterize such meanless distributions is the logarithmic mean […]
- 2004, La Rivista del Nuovo cimento‎^[4], Società italiana di fisica, page 35:
  In particular: i) the average is used to get a meanless dataset, as specified in sect. 20; […]