average
IPA: ˈævɝɪdʒ
noun
- (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
- (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- (law, marine) 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.
- (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
- (UK, law, obsolete) 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
- (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
adjective
- (not comparable) 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.
- (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
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Examples of "average" in Sentences
- Which is the average size of a synapse
- The average size of a cocci is approximately 0.5 to 1 micrometer.
- The greater the population, the smaller the average size of males.
- The average annual rainfall is and the average annual snowfall is.
- The flowers are of average size for roses of the miniature category.
- The gestation period is 10 months and the average litter size is three.
- The average size for chain pickerel, however, is 24 inches and 3 pounds.
- The average size of the military formation in peacetime is about 210 men.
- The average single piece of LTL freight is and the size of a standard pallet.