headerless

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adjective

Without a header.

OriginProto-Germanic *lausaz ← Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- ← English header →
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Meanings

adjectiveheaderless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout a header.

    The most basic uncompressed format is the headerless audio file […]

    2004, Colby Leider, Digital Audio Workstation
    2 more examples

    Even headerless LOADs will work with the Sprint, though be warned, it can't cope with the now common turboload.

    1985, Speed Trials (in Your Spectrum issue 14, May 1985)

    The surrounded program code therefore becomes a headerless procedure and could be transformed into a real subprogram […]

    1996, Gerd Szwillus, Lisa Ruben Neal, Structure-based Editors and Environments

Origin

  1. Englishheader
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  4. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  5. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  6. Englishheaderless

From header + -less.

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Cite this entry
APA

headerless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headerless

MLA

“headerless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headerless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “headerless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headerless.

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