fieldlessadj.
/ˈfiːldlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈfi(ld)lᵻs/ 1. Lacking fields; having no fields.
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1829 Time's Telescope: Guide to Almanack 415 The water-surrounded and fieldless Venetian, with his wind-admitting lattices, and cold, damp fireless halls.
1890 O. Crawfurd Round Calendar in Portugal 2 A great stretch of hedgeless, fieldless land.
1920 Unseen Guest 186 The poemless poets and the fieldless farmers are an unhappy set, I have noticed, discounting their successes as carpenters and bankers.
1964 Economist 14 Mar. 1016/1 The new concrete, fieldless farms.
1999 Church Times 19 Mar. 28/5 Over the river all is a void, a fieldless, meadowless white space, or the next parish.
2. Electrical Engineering and Physics. That does not produce or contain a significant electrical or magnetic field.
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1890 Electr. Engineer 23 Apr. 260/1 Henry's fieldless motor.
1925 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 8 (advt.) Last year Grebe developed the fieldless Binocular Coils and S-L-F Condenser.
1980 Radiation Res. 84 193 A 1-μsec electron pulse is emitted into the fieldless chamber.
2003 Sensor Mag. (Nexis) Aug. 22 Piezo motors offer several key advantages—they are fieldless, which makes them ideal for electron-beam applications.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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