average

Plural: averages

Noun

• a statistic describing the location of a distribution
• (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
• an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
  • "he is about average in height"
  • "the snowfall this month is below average"
• Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
• Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
• The arithmetic mean.
• Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
• Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
• Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
• An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
• The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

Verb

Verb Forms: averaged, averaging, averages

• To calculate the mean of numbers.
• amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
  • "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"
• achieve or reach on average
  • "He averaged a C"
• compute the average of
• To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
• Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
• To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
• To be, generally or on average.

Adjective Satellite

• 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"
• lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
  • "average people"
• lacking exceptional quality or ability
  • "a novel of average merit"
  • "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"
• around the middle of a scale of evaluation
  • "an orange of average size"
• relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
• 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

• Constituting or relating to the average.
• Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
• Typical.
• Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

Examples

• batting average
• I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.
• I soon found I was only an average chess player.
• If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.
• If you average my turns, you’ll see a pathetic score, but my last play was brilliant.
• The average age of the participants was 18.5.
• The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
• The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
• The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
• to average a loss
• 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.

Synonyms

average out, fair, intermediate, mean, median, mediocre, medium, middling, modal, norm, ordinary, av., ave., avg., bog-standard, comme ci comme ça, conventional, expectation, middle-rank, normal, regular, so-so, standard, typical, uninspiring, unremarkable, usual

Antonyms

extraordinary

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