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Definitions of 'average' Wordnet 

1. (noun) average, norm
a statistic describing the location of a distribution
"it set the norm for American homes"

2. (noun) average
(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities

3. (adj) average
an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
"he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average"

4. (adj) average, mean(a)
approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
"the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"

5. (adj) average, ordinary
lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
"average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

6. (adj) average, fair, mediocre, middling
lacking exceptional quality or ability
"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"

7. (adj) average, intermediate, medium
around the middle of a scale of evaluation
"an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"

8. (adj) modal(a), average
relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
"the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"

9. (verb) median(a), average
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)
"the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"

10. (verb) average, average out
amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
"The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"

11. (verb) average
achieve or reach on average
"He averaged a C"

12. (verb) average, average out
compute the average of


Definitions of 'average' Webster 1913 Dictionary 

1. (adj) average
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

2. (adj) average
according to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution

3. (noun) average
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

4. (noun) average
a tariff or duty on goods, etc

5. (noun) average
any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped

6. (noun) average
a contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils

7. (noun) average
the equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested

8. (noun) average
a mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10

9. (noun) average
any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc

10. (noun) average
in the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets

11. (verb) average
to find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean

12. (verb) average
to divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss

13. (verb) average
to do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average

14. (verb) average
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


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