ALL meanings of average
av·er·age
A a - noun average Achieve or amount to as an average rate or amount over a period of time. 1
- noun average a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester. 1
- noun average a typical amount, rate, degree, etc.; norm. 1
- noun average Statistics. arithmetic mean. 1
- noun average Mathematics. a quantity intermediate to a set of quantities. 1
- noun average Commerce. a charge paid by the master of a ship for such services as pilotage or towage. an expense, partial loss, or damage to a ship or cargo. the incidence of such an expense or loss to the owners or their insurers. an equitable apportionment among all the interested parties of such an expense or loss. Compare general average, particular average. 1
- adjective average of or relating to an average; estimated by average; forming an average: The average rainfall there is 180 inches. 1
- adjective average typical; common; ordinary: The average secretary couldn't handle such a workload. His grades were nothing special, only average. 1
- verb with object average to find an average value for (a variable quantity); reduce to a mean: We averaged the price of milk in five neighborhood stores. 1
- verb with object average (of a variable quantity) to have as its arithmetic mean: Wheat averages 56 pounds to a bushel. 1
- verb with object average to do or have on the average: He averages seven hours of sleep a night. 1
- verb without object average to have or show an average: to average as expected. 1
- idioms average on the / an average, usually; typically: She can read 50 pages an hour, on the average. 1
- noun average (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. 0
- noun average Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods. 0
- noun average Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense. 0
- noun average (mathematics) The arithmetic mean. 0
- noun average (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. 0
- noun average (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc. 0
- noun average (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (Britain, law) 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. 0
- noun average (Britain, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. 0
- verb average (Transitive Verb) INF To compute the arithmetic mean of. 0
- verb average Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of. 0
- verb average To divide among a number, according to a given proportion. 0
- verb average To be, generally or on average. 0
- adjective average (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average. 0
- adjective average Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category. 0
- adjective average Typical. 0
- adjective average (Informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor. 0