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Average

adjective

1.

Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value. Synonym: mean. "Of average height for his age" , "The mean annual rainfall"

2.

Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered. Synonym: ordinary. "The ordinary (or common) man in the street"

3.

Lacking exceptional quality or ability. Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling. "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"

4.

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation. Synonyms: intermediate, medium. "Intermediate capacity" , "Medium bombers"

5.

Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution. Synonym: modal.

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). Synonym: median. "The median income for the year was $15,000"

noun

1.

A statistic describing the location of a distribution. Synonym: norm.

2.

(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities.

3.

An intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual. "The snowfall this month is below average"

verb

(past & past part. averaged; pres. part. averaging)

1.

Amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain. Synonym: average out.

2.

Achieve or reach on average.

3.

Compute the average of. Synonym: average out.

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— The Yosemite • John Muir

... bronze they invariably present a droopy not to say dropsical appearance; and the kind of bone-handled umbrella that Daniel Webster habitually carried has never yet been successfully worked out in marble. When you contemplate the average statue of Lincoln—and most of them, as you may have noticed, are very average—you do not see there the majesty and the grandeur and the abiding sorrow of the man and the tragedy of his life. ...

— Cobb's Bill-of-Fare • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... gray, with dark lashes, and their expression was at once brilliant and melancholy, and the most spiritual I have ever seen. Her hair was long and fair, with a tinge of gold glancing through its pale-brown masses, as if sunbeams were woven in its tresses. She was not above the average height, but the proportions of her figure were peculiarly beautiful, and her movements and attitudes had the indescribable gracefulness whose harmony was a portion of her being. She looked even younger than she really was, and her dress, though ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 • Various

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