Meaningless vs Meanless - What's the difference?
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Lacking meaning.
Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
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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:
* 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,
* 2004 , in La Rivista del Nuovo cimento , Società italiana di fisica, page 35:
As adjectives the difference between meaningless and meanless
is that meaningless is lacking meaning while meanless is meaningless, lacking meaning.meaningless
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Adjective
(en adjective)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless .}}
Derived terms
* meaninglessnessSynonyms
* (not worthy of importance) negligible, trivialAntonyms
* (lacking meaning) meaningful * (not worthy of importance) significantmeanless
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, isbn= , page= , passage=The window here, and there the door annoys, Then frequent repetitions tire the ear Of meanless speeches, dull and insincere. }}
citation, passage=Harp continued to find receivers open and the Eagles added several meanless touchdowns in the last half of the game. }}
- is stopped () if either the estimation error is within a "dead zone" (), or the arrival data are meanless ().
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- Another unfailing “mean” to characterize such meanless distributions is the logarithmic mean
- In particular: i) the average is used to get a meanless' dataset, as specified in sect. ' 20 ;