average
Etymology 1
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Etymology 1
From Middle French avarie, from Old French avarie, from roa-oit avaria (which is possibly from Arabic عَوَارِيَّة, from عَوَار ("fault, blemish, defect, flaw"), from عَوِرَ ("to lose an eye")) + English suffix -age.
Pronunciation Nounaverage (plural averages)
- (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
- The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
- (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. [from c. 1735]
- (legal, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. [from 15th c.]
- 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.
- batting average
- French: moyenne
- German: Durchschnitt, arithmetisches Mittel, Mittelwert
- Italian: media
- Portuguese: média
- Russian: сре́днее
- Spanish: promedio, media
average
- (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
- The average age of the participants was 18.5.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
- I soon found I was only an average chess player.
- Typical.
- The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
- (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
- (constituting or relating to the average) av., ave., avg., expectation (colloquial), mean
- (neither very good nor very bad) mediocre, medium, middle-ranking, middling, unremarkable, so-so, comme ci comme ça
- (typical) conventional, normal, regular, standard, typical, usual, bog-standard (slang)
- (not outstanding, not good; bad or poor) ordinary, uninspiring
- (antonym(s) of “neither very good nor very bad”): extraordinary
- French: moyen
- German: durchschnittlich
- Italian: medio, media
- Portuguese: médio, média
- Russian: сре́дний
- Spanish: medio
- Portuguese: equilibrado
- Russian: сре́дний
- Spanish: ni fu ni fa, promedio, mediocre
- French: moyen
- Russian: обыкнове́нный
- Spanish: común y corriente
average (averages, present participle averaging; simple past and past participle averaged)
- (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.
- (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
- I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.
- (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- to average a loss
- (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
- 1872, Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds:
- Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]
From Middle English average, from Medieval Latin averagium, from aver from Old English eafor from aferian; + -age.
Nounaverage (plural averages)
- (UK, legal, 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.
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