average

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Coordinate terms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Antonyms 1.4.3 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Derived terms 1.5.2 Translations

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[edit] Etymology

From Old French avarie < Italian avaria < Arabic عوارية (ʕawārīya), “‘damaged goods’”) < عوار (ʕawār), “‘fault, blemish, defect, flaw’”) < عور (ʕáwira), “‘to lose an eye’”).

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• IPA: /ˈævəɹɪdʒ/, SAMPA: /"{v@r\IdZ/

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average (plural averages)

1. (arithmetic) The arithmetic mean.

   The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.

2. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode (see Usage notes below).
3. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

   batting average

[edit] Usage notes

• The term average may refer to the statistical mean, median or mode of a batch, sample, or distribution, or sometimes any other measure of central tendency. Statisticians and responsible news sources are careful to use whichever of these specific terms is appropriate. In common usage, average refers to the arithmetic mean. It is, however, a common rhetorical trick to call the most favorable of mean, median and mode the "average" depending on the interpretation of a set of figures that the speaker or writer wants to promote.

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• (measure of central tendency): arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, mean, median, mode

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average (comparative more average, superlative most average)

1. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

   The average age of the participants was 18.5.

2. 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.

3. Typical.

   The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.

4. (Australian, New Zealand, informal) Bad or undesirable.

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• (constituting or relating to the average): mean; expectation (colloquial)
• (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)

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• (neither very good nor very bad): extraordinary

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to average (third-person singular simple present averages, present participle averaging, simple past and past participle averaged)

1. (transitive, informal) To compute the arithmetic mean of.

   If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.

2. (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 15C.

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• average down
• average out

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