different between meatless vs meanless

English

Etymology

From Middle English meteles, from Old English metel?as (“foodless”), equivalent to meat +? -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?tl?s/

Adjective

meatless (not comparable)

1. Without meat.
   • 1916, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

     A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.

   • 1942, Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 300. [Memo from Prime Minister Churchill to General Ismay dated April 3, 1942]

     Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?

Antonyms

• meatful

Translations

Anagrams

• Malteses, mateless, tameless, teamless

English

Etymology

From mean +? -less.

Adjective

meanless (comparative more meanless, superlative most meanless)

1. (archaic) Meaningless, lacking meaning.
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, in 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; […]

Anagrams

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