English to English adjective
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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. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | | Example: the average income in New England is below that of the nation of average height for his age the mean annual rainfall
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lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | | Example: average people the ordinary (or common) man in the street
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lacking exceptional quality or ability | | Example: 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
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around the middle of a scale of evaluation | | Example: an orange of average size intermediate capacity medium bombers
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relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | | Example: the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30
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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) | | Example: the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20 the median income for the year was $15,000
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a statistic describing the location of a distribution | | Example: it set the norm for American homes
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(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | | source: wordnet30
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an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | | Example: he is about average in height the snowfall this month is below average
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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. | | source: webster1913 verb
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amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | | Example: The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40
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achieve or reach on average | | Example: He averaged a C
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compute the average of | | source: wordnet30
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To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean. | | source: webster1913
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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. | | source: webster1913
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