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Average   /ˈævərɪdʒ/  /ˈævrədʒ/  /ˈævrɪdʒ/   Listen
Average

adjective
1.
Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.  Synonym: mean.  "Of average height for his age" , "The mean annual rainfall"
2.
Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered.  Synonym: ordinary.  "The ordinary (or common) man in the street"
3.
Lacking exceptional quality or ability.  Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling.  "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"
4.
Around the middle of a scale of evaluation.  Synonyms: intermediate, medium.  "Intermediate capacity" , "Medium bombers"
5.
Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.  Synonym: modal.
6.
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).  Synonym: median.  "The median income for the year was $15,000"
noun
1.
A statistic describing the location of a distribution.  Synonym: norm.
2.
(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities.
3.
An intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual.  "The snowfall this month is below average"
verb
(past & past part. averaged; pres. part. averaging)
1.
Amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain.  Synonym: average out.
2.
Achieve or reach on average.
3.
Compute the average of.  Synonym: average out.



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"Average" Quotes from Famous Books



... spoken several times of the study of economy, and of the science of economy; and I used these words advisedly. However natural and comparatively easy it may be to some persons to form an accurate judgment of the general average of their ordinary expenses, and of all the contingencies that are perpetually arising, I do not believe that you possess this power by nature: you only need, however, to force your intellectual faculties into this direction to find that here, as elsewhere, they may be ...
— The Young Lady's Mentor - A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends • A Lady
... what these considerations would lead us to expect, that eminent women have commonly been exceptional in training and position, as well as in their genius. They have excelled the average of their own sex because they have shared the ordinary advantages of the other sex. Take any department of learning or skill; take, for instance, the knowledge of languages, the universal alphabet, philology. On the great stairway at Padua stands the statue of Elena Cornaro, professor of six ...
— Women and the Alphabet • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... by the conditions which confronted them on their return to peaceful and agricultural pursuits. The subdivision of farms among the many robust sons of the average New England household had reached its limit, and the young man who would found a home and family of his own, thenceforth must seek for cheaper and broader acres than were to be found already under cultivation. New Hampshire's liberal offer ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various
... for half a century all the laws have been adopted by the initiative system, the average of laws proposed has been only two and ...
— Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 • Franklin Hichborn
... this Journal. It marks the state of Scotland, and the feeling with which the most finely gifted Englishmen came to it seventy years since, at a time before the flood of English interest and 'tourism' had set in across the Border. The Wordsworths were of course not average English people. They came with an eye awake and trained for nature, and a heart in sympathy with nature and with man in a degree not common either in that or in any other age. They were north-country English too, and ...
— Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 • Dorothy Wordsworth


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