meanlessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

meanless (comparative more meanless, superlative most meanless)

1. (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.

2. (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 (${\displaystyle n_{k}=0}$) if either the estimation error is within a "dead zone" (${\displaystyle \left|c_{k}\right|\leq \left|\delta _{kp}\right|}$), or the arrival data are meanless (${\displaystyle \gamma _{k}=0}$).

   • 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; […]

派生語

• meanlessness

アナグラム

• Sleemans, lameness, maleness, maneless, nameless, salesmen