Adjective

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Without beans.

a beanless variety of soup

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Meaningless, lacking meaning.

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(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 ($n\_k=0$) 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 ;