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Meaning of average

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  average
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {average}, {mean(a)}]
      2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly
         encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man
         in the street" [syn: {average}, {ordinary}]
      3: lacking 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"
         [syn: {average}, {fair}, {mediocre}, {middling}]
      4: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of
         average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"
         [syn: {average}, {intermediate}, {medium}]
      5: relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a
         distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists
         reach their peak is 30" [syn: {modal(a)}, {average}]
      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); "the median value of 17, 20, and
         36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn:
         {median(a)}, {average}]
      n 1: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it
           set the norm for American homes" [syn: {average}, {norm}]
      2: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to
         opportunities
      3: an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he
         is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is
         below average"
      v 1: amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The
           number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" [syn:
           {average}, {average out}]
      2: achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"
      3: compute the average of [syn: {average}, {average out}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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