headless
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headless (not comparable)
- Without a head; decapitated.
- How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?
- Without a head in the sense of leadership.
- The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.
- (linguistics, of a phrase or compound) Not having a head morpheme or word.
- (computing) Running without a user interface; specifically, running without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
- 2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0-7357-1158-7, page 62:
- /redirect. Used for console redirection in headless servers.
- 2007, Carla Schroder, Linux Networking Cookbook, O’Reilly Media (2008), ISBN 978-0-596-10248-7, page 47:
- Routers typically run headless, without a keyboard or monitor.
- 2010, Charles Bell et al., MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers, O'Reilly Media, ISBN 978-0-596-80730-6, page 278:
- This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server […]
- 2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0-7357-1158-7, page 62:
- (of beer) Without a head of foam.
