informationless

English

Etymology

information +‎ -less

Adjective

informationless (not comparable)

  1. Devoid of information; meaningless.
    • 1998, Roger Hersch, Jacques André, Heather Brown, Electronic publishing, artistic imaging, and digital typography:
      And what is an informationless word in one language can be very useful in another language or context...
    • 2004, Robert G Crittenden, Neil Turok, Structure formation in the Universe:
      ...compress the data into more manageable chunks (eg, using signal-to-noise eigenmodes to get rid of informationless noisy components of the map).
    • 2008, Marc Brevoort, Growing Better Software:
      A good example of an informationless key is a UUID (essentially a random 128 bit value, guaranteed to be unique) which is typically displayed as hex string.
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