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average
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adjective (a)

  • Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.(adjective)
    source: webster1913

noun (n)

  • a statistic describing the location of a distribution(noun.cognition)
    Synonym:
    norm
    source: wordnet30
  • (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities(noun.linkdef)
    source: wordnet30
  • an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual(noun.cognition)
    Example:
    He is about average in height.
    The snowfall this month is below average.
    source: wordnet30
  • That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.(noun)
    source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

  • approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value(adj.all)
    Example:
    The average income in New England is below that of the nation.
    Of average height for his age.
    Synonym:
    mean
    source: wordnet30
  • lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered(adj.all)
    Example:
    Average people.
    Synonym:
    ordinary
    source: wordnet30
  • lacking exceptional quality or ability(adj.all)
    Example:
    A novel of average merit.
    The caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average.
    Synonym:
    fair, mediocre, middling
    source: wordnet30
  • around the middle of a scale of evaluation(adj.all)
    Example:
    An orange of average size.
    Synonym:
    intermediate, medium
    source: wordnet30
  • relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution(adj.all)
    Synonym:
    modal
    source: wordnet30
  • relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)(adj.all)
    Synonym:
    median
    source: wordnet30

verb (v)

  • amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain(verb.stative)
    Example:
    The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40.
    Synonym:
    average out
    source: wordnet30
  • achieve or reach on average(verb.social)
    Example:
    He averaged a C.
    source: wordnet30
  • compute the average of(verb.cognition)
    source: wordnet30
  • To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.(verb)
    source: webster1913
  • To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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