average
Other forms: averaged; averaging; averages; averagely
If something is average, it's ordinary and not very special. You might say a movie was average if you thought it was just okay.
Average can describe what's true most of the time, as in, “The average rainfall in Seattle is fifty-two inches.” It can also be used in a mathematical and more precise way. On his English tests, Dylan received grades of 92%, 85% and 94%. His average grade was 90%, or the sum of the test scores divided by the number of tests taken.
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an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual“he is about average in height”“the snowfall this month is below average”type of:scale valuea value on some scale of measurement
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a statistic describing the location of a distributionsynonyms: normtypes:age normthe average age at which particular performances are expected to appearmean, mean valuean average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of narithmetic mean, expectation, expected value, first momentthe sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of valuesgeometric meanthe mean of n numbers expressed as the n-th root of their productharmonic meanthe mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numberstype of:statistica datum that can be represented numerically
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(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunitiestypes:batting average, hitting average(baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at batfielding average(baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chancestype of:ratiothe relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
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around the middle of a scale of evaluation“an orange of average size”synonyms: intermediate, mediummoderatebeing within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
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approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
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relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
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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)
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amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
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achieve or reach on average
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compute the average of
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lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
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lacking exceptional quality or ability
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mean / median / average
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