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Meaningless vs Meanless - What's the difference?

meaningless | meanless |

As adjectives the difference between meaningless and meanless

is that meaningless is lacking meaning while meanless is meaningless, lacking meaning.

meaningless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking meaning.
  • Insignificant; not worthy of importance.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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

    * meaninglessness

    Synonyms

    * (not worthy of importance) negligible, trivial

    Antonyms

    * (lacking meaning) meaningful * (not worthy of importance) significant

    meanless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Meaningless, lacking meaning.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1815 , author=Charlotte Nooth , title=A dish of tea! , chapter= citation , isbn= , page= , passage=The window here, and there the door annoys, Then frequent repetitions tire the ear Of meanless speeches, dull and insincere. }}
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2007 , date=October 23 , author=Marvin Hogan , title=Eagles soar past Leopards , work=Gainesville Daily Register citation , passage=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 , , Springer-Verlag, ISBN 9780387521824, page 208:
  • is stopped (n_k=0) if either the estimation error is within a "dead zone" (\left , c_k \right , \le \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 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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