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| 1. | [ adjective ] (statistics) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | |
| Synonyms: | mean | |
| Examples: | "the average income in New England is below that of the nation" "of average height for his age" "the mean annual rainfall" |
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| Related terms: | statistics normal | |
| 2. | [ verb ] (mathematics) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | |
| Synonyms: | average_out | |
| Examples: | "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" |
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| Related terms: | total | |
| 3. | [ noun ] (mathematics,statistics) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | |
| Synonyms: | norm | |
| Examples: | : "it set the norm for American homes" |
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| Related terms: | statistic mean mode median age_norm statistics | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | |
| Synonyms: | ordinary | |
| Examples: | "average people" "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" |
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| Related terms: | common | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] of no exceptional quality or ability | |
| Synonyms: | mediocre middling fair | |
| Examples: | "a novel of average merit" "only a fair performance of the sonata" "in fair health" "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average" "the performance was middling at best" |
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| Related terms: | ordinary | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures | |
| Synonyms: | medium intermediate | |
| Examples: | "an orange of average size" "intermediate capacity" "a plane with intermediate range" "medium bombers" |
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| Related terms: | moderate | |
| 7. | [ verb ] achieve or reach on average | |
| Examples: | "He averaged a C" |
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| Related terms: | achieve | |
| 8. | [ verb ] (mathematics) compute the average of | |
| Synonyms: | average_out | |
| Related terms: | calculate arithmetic | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] (statistics) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | |
| Synonyms: | modal | |
| Examples: | "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" |
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| Related terms: | statistics normal | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] (statistics) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set) | |
| Synonyms: | median | |
| Examples: | "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20" "the median income for the year was $15,000" |
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| Related terms: | statistics normal | |
| Similar spelling: |
averse Aversa avarice averroes aversive |
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