average

IPA: ˈævɝɪdʒ

(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.

(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.

(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.

Examples of "average" in Sentences

The numbers are even higher in places like Chicago, where the average is almost $42,000.
The long-term average is about 80%, and with current growth rates we should be there in a year.
The term average originally meant what is now distinguished as general average; and the expression
Means, medians, and modes are kinds of averages; usually, however, the term average refers to a mean.
What "Average" means - Many of us use the term average when we discuss metrics, this is a great primer to understand the term better.
The average weight of brain, in 278 Europeans, was 49.50 oz., in 24 White American soldiers, 52.06 oz., indicating a greater _average_ for the American brain.
At Tavoy, on the Tenasserim coast, the maximum rate of productiveness of the rice land was, in 1825, and is still believed to be, nearly the same as the average of Siam; while their _average_ was only twenty-fold.
_average_ novel of the third quarter of the century -- in a more than average but not of an extraordinary, transcendental, or quintessential condition -- Anthony Trollope is about as good a representative as can be found.
f, densitometry of the bands from (e), normalized to β-actin; N = normal brain, S = sham, C = contra-lateral, I = ischemic; Graph depicts the average of at least three separate experiments, and the average+ / − the S.E.M. is shown; Panel III.