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  • adjective Without data.

Etymologies

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data +‎ -less

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Examples

  • I've never been able to address vacant thoughts, empty claims and dataless papers as if they were real thoughts, claims with substance, or papers with data.

    Barbara Forrest Speaks Out 2006

  • To understand why there cannot be “dataless information”, we shall now look at the typological neutrality of GDI.

    Semantic Conceptions of Information Floridi, Luciano 2005

  • Let us now return to our question: can there be dataless information?

    Semantic Conceptions of Information Floridi, Luciano 2005

  • “Shift unpredictable dataless uncertainties dangerous!”

    Dark Mirror Diane Duane 1993

  • AIX thin servers (which are diskless and dataless AIX images booted from storage over NFS) will be enhanced to support NFS v4 and IPv6.

    The Register 2010

  • And this was how I became officially dataless, an outcast in a totally wired 21st-century world, adrift without a decade's worth of personal contacts, photographs, reporter's notes and angry complaint letters I'd written to the idiots who run big companies.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • Being raised by nannies makes men commit adultery, so mothers should stay home instead of working, says -- wait for it -- some dataless royalwatcher in the Telegraph. [time's got a nice writeup so you don't have to send your pageviews abroad]

    Daddy Types greg 2010

  • And this was how I became officially dataless, an outcast in a totally wired 21st-century world, adrift without a decade's worth of personal contacts, photographs, reporter's notes and angry complaint letters I'd written to the idiots who run big companies.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • Being raised by nannies makes men commit adultery, so mothers should stay home instead of working, says -- wait for it -- some dataless royalwatcher in the Telegraph. [time's got a nice writeup so you don't have to send your pageviews abroad]

    Daddy Types greg 2010

  • AIX thin servers (which are diskless and dataless AIX images booted from storage over NFS) will be enhanced to support NFS v4 and IPv6.

    The Register 2010

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