AVERAGE





Definition:

  1. [noun] a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes"
    Synonyms: norm

  2. [verb] amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"
    Synonyms: out

  3. [verb] achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"

  4. [verb] compute the average of
    Synonyms: out

  5. [adjective] approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"
    Synonyms: mean

  6. [adjective] lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
    Synonyms: ordinary

  7. [adjective] of no exceptional quality or ability; "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"
    Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling

  8. [adjective] around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"
    Synonyms: intermediate, medium

  9. [adjective] relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"
    Synonyms: modal

  10. [adjective] relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"
    Synonyms: median

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