average

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

   • You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.
2. 2

   A financial loss due to damage to transported goods

   A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

3. 3

   An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

   • batting average
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   1. 4

      Constituting or relating to the average.

      • The average age of the participants was 18.5.
   2. 5

      Neither very good nor very bad

      Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

      • I soon found I was only an average chess player.
   3. 6

      Typical.

      • The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
      • We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.
      • Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.
   4. 7

      Not outstanding, not good, banal

      Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

      • The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average. However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.
      • But what the vast majority of the populace doesn′t realise is the fact that he′s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he′s only a very average attorney.
      • In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.
   5. 8

      To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

      • If you average 10, 20, and 24, you get 18.
   6. 9

      Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value…

      Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

      • The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
      • I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.
      • The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.
   7. 10

      To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

      • to average a loss
   8. 11

      To be, generally or on average.

      • Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]
   9. 12

      The feudal service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant,…

      The feudal service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

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