Word Finder - average

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The arithmetic mean.

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The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.

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Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

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(marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

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Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

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Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

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An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

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batting average

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(in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

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To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

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If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.

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Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

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I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.

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To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

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to average a loss

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To be, generally or on average.

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Constituting or relating to the average.

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The average age of the participants was 18.5.

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Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

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I soon found I was only an average chess player.

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Typical.

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The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.

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Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

Our kind tend to live much longer than the average human.

She was of above average height with long, dark blonde curls loosely captured at her neck.

It has a length of 52 m., and an average width of 1 2 m.

What are their average salaries?

I'm of above average height by an inch and above average weight by ten pounds.

Just half a century ago, Americans on average spent more than 20 percent of their income on food.

But Josh wasn't the average man.

On the other hand, if you take the forty richest countries, each person earns on average around $33,000.

Even so, he managed to communicate better than the average person, and when he did say something, it was generally well thought out.

So, let's say on average the pan is worth $2,000 to everyone who uses it—all the way from the people who just think it is "cool" to the people who it saves from food poisoning to the people whose lives and houses it saves.

The rainfall of New South Wales ranges from an annual average of 64 in.

The thermal effect of the aldehyde group has the average value 64.88 calories, i.e.

That would average over three SMS messages per day per person on the planet.

I don't know how you keep such a high grade average.

The result, if considered alone, inevitably leads to an underestimate of the average amplitude of the regular diurnal variation.

The basal plain of these terraces is the bed of the ocean, which on the Pacific side has an average depth of 15,000 ft.

The coastal districts average about 42 in.

The average value for the carboxyl group is 119.75 calories, i.e.

The thermal effect of the ether group has an average value of 34.3 1 calories.

The original drawings for this map had to be done with exceptional neatness, the draughtsman spending twelve months on that which he would have completed in four months had it been intended to engrave the map on copper; yet an average chart, measuring 530 by 630 mm., which would have taken two years and nine months for drawing and engraving, was completed in less than fifteen months - fifty days of which were spent in " retouching " the copper plate.

Yet I have no doubt that that people's rulers are as wise as the average of civilized rulers.

I mean, look at Alex and I. We're both short, and both Mom and Dad were average height.

Now frequency of movement, average daily price variation, and range of price movements are matters of fundamental importance to the public. Hence for practical purposes we require several kinds of measurement of price movements, and it is impossible to weigh exactly the one against the other in respect of importance.

Near Seathwaite, below Styhead Pass, the largest annual rainfall in the British Isles is recorded, the average (1870-1899) being 133.53 in., while 173.7 was measured in 1903 and 243.98 in.

Besides, how would I look if all my people were average?

The average area occupied by it in the years from 1896 to 1905 was 1,043,000 acres, the total average production being 262,364,000 cwt.

The decrease in the annual average production of cocoons is shown in the preceding table.

The preceding table shows the average output of the chief coal-groups for the years 1901-1905 inclusive.

The table below gives the average production of zinc, argentiferous lead, iron-pyrites and other ores during the quinquennial period 1901f 905.

Salt, &c.Rock-salt is worked chiefly in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle,which produces more than half the average annual product of salt.

Metallurgy.The average production and value of iron and steel manufactured in France in the last four decades of the I 9th century is shown below Cast Iron.

A permanent body (the commission permanente des valeurs) fixes the average prices of the Imporis.

The average value of the principal articles of import and export (special trade) over quinquennial periods following 1890 is shown in the two tables below.

The terrace closest to the land, known as the continental shelf, has an average depth of 600 ft., and connects Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania in one unbroken sweep. Compared with other continents, the Australian continental shelf is extremely narrow, and there are points on the eastern coast where the land plunges down to oceanic depths with an abruptness rarely paralleled.

The range is here called the Muniong, but farther north it receives the name of Monaro Range; the latter has a much reduced altitude, its average being only about 2000 feet.

The higher steppes, as far as they are known, consist of Ordovician and Cambrian rocks, with an average elevation of 1500 to 3000 ft.

Besides state schools there were 2145 private schools, with 7825 teachers and 137,000 scholars, the average number of scholars in attendance being 120,000.

Average Weekly Cash Wages of ordinary Agricultural Labourers employed on certain Farms in England and Wales.

The benefits attaching to membership and the number of the members were increased during the Empire, when the average number somewhat exceeded thirty thousand.

The success of Bonaparte in reorganizing France may be ascribed to his determined practicality and to his perception of the needs of the average man.

The average elevation of the state above the sea is about 850 ft., but extremes vary from 425 ft.

The till plains of north-western Ohio are drained chiefly by the Maumee and Sandusky rivers, with their tributaries, and the average fall of the Maumee is only 1.1 ft.

The average annual fall of snow is about 37 in.

The average size of the farms decreased from 125.2 acres in 1850 to 99.2 acres in 1880 and 88.5 acres in 1900.

But the average of two presi dential votes was 85.37%; and the maxima, minima and means for mayors and governors were respectively 83.86, 74.99, 78.36 and 8 4.73, 61.7 8, 75.7 2.

The average yearly expenditure for ten years preceding 1904 was $27,354,416.

The running expenses per capita in 1900 were $35.23; more than twice the average of 86 leading cities of the country (New York, $23.92; Chicago, $11.62).

The average interest rate on the city obligations in 1907 was about 3.7%.

Egyptian cotton in length of staple is intermediate between average Sea Island and average Upland.

Three to four inches of rain per month is the average.