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English → English (WordNet) Definition: average average n : a statistic describing the location of a distribution; “it set the norm for American homes” [syn: norm] 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: mean(a)] 2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; “average people”; “the ordinary (or common) man in the street” [syn: ordinary] 3: 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” [syn: fair, mediocre, middling] 4: 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” [syn: 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)] 6: 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” [syn: median(a)] 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 out] 2: achieve or reach on average; “He averaged a C” 3: compute the average of [syn: average out]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Average Average \Av"er*age\, a. 1. Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp. [1913 Webster] 2. According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution. [1913 Webster] Average \Av"er*age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Averaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Averaging.] 1. To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean. [1913 Webster] 2. To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss. [1913 Webster] 3. To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average. [1913 Webster] Average \Av"er*age\, n. [OF. average, LL. averagium, prob. fr. OF. aver, F. avoir, property, horses, cattle, etc.; prop. infin., to have, from L. habere to have. Cf. F. av['e]rage small cattle, and avarie (perh. of different origin) damage to ship or cargo, port dues. The first meaning was perhaps the service of carting a feudal lord's wheat, then charge for carriage, the contribution towards loss of things carried, in proportion to the amount of each person's property. Cf. Aver, n., Avercorn, Averpenny.] 1. (OLd Eng. Law) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. [Cf. F. avarie damage to ship or cargo.] (Com.) (a) A tariff or duty on goods, etc. [Obs.] (b) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped. (c) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils. (d) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested. [1913 Webster] General average, a contribution made, by all parties concerned in a sea adventure, toward a loss occasioned by the voluntary sacrifice of the property of some of the parties in interest for the benefit of all. It is called general average, because it falls upon the gross amount of ship, cargo, and freight at risk and saved by the sacrifice. --Kent. Particular average signifies the damage or partial loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo. In the clause commonly found in bills of lading, “primage and average accustomed,” average means a kind of composition established by usage for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average. --Arnould. --Abbott. --Phillips. [1913 Webster] 3. A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10. [1913 Webster] 4. Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc. “The average of sensations.” --Paley. [1913 Webster] 5. pl. In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. [1913 Webster] On an average, taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities. [1913 Webster] Average \Av"er*age\, v. i. To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length. [1913 Webster]