Word Finder - averages

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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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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.

The chief wheat lands are in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales; the yield averages about 9 bushels to the acre; this low average is due to the endeavour of settlers on new lands to cultivate larger areas than their resources can effectively deal with; the introduction of scientific farming should almost double the yield.

The proportion of ground under olives is from 20 to 36% at Porto Maurizio, and in Reggio, Lecce, Ban, Chieti and Leghorn it averages from 10 to 19%.

In the year last named imports were valued at £5 8 9,979 and exports at £130,305, the annual averages since 1895 being about £426,300 and £112,500 respectively.

The other suit at the bar had not turned around and the painters and barkeeper were in their own world of batting averages and ERA's.

The birth rate averages 26.28 per thousand of the population and the death rate 12.28, showing a net increase of 14 per thousand by reason of the excess of births over deaths.

The cost of public instruction ih Australia averages about I Is.

The rainfall, which occurs chiefly in winter, only averages about So in.

In Italy the annual mortality from this cause averages 15,000, which is estimated.

To the former belong the Black Sea littoral, where the rainfall averages 59 to 93 in.

In Lenkoran also the rainfall averages 40 to 50 in.

The rainfall averages 52.09 in.

Its length from Cape Maisi to Cape San Antonio along a medial line is about 730 m.; its breadth, which averages about 50 m., ranges from a maximum of 160 m.

The Liber abaci, which fills 459 printed pages, contains the most perfect methods of calculating with whole numbers and with fractions, practice, extraction of the square and cube roots, proportion, chain rule, finding of proportional parts, averages, progressions, even compound interest, just as in the completest mercantile arithmetics of our days.

In Burma the cultivators themselves continue to hold the land from government, and the extent of their holdings averages about five acres.

The height of the mountain varies from time to time within limits of several hundred feet, according to the effects of successive eruptions, but averages about 4000 ft.

This earthwork averages 250 ft.

The country produce sold in Milwaukee averages about $75,000,000 a year in value.

The output of alum averages 4000 to 5000 tons a year, and is mostly exported from Civitavecchia.

According to consular reports the value of the exports and imports which passed through the Tabriz custom-house during the years 1867-73 averaged L593,800 and f1,226,660 (total for the year, I,820,460); the averages for the six years 1893-9 were £212,880 and £544,530.

It is estimated that the eating and caving of the shore below Little Rock averages 7 64 acres per mile every year (as against 1.99 acres above Little Rock).

The rainfall averages 34 in.

According to this view the different lines are given out by different molecules, and we should have to take averages over a number of molecules to obtain the complete spectrum just as we now take averages of energy to obtain the temperature.

The rainfall averages 23 in.

The herring fleet possesses more than 600 boats and the annual catch averages nearly £200,000.

Its breadth averages 50 yds., and its depth is 1 5 ft.

Most of the best river otter comes from Canada and the United States and averages 36 X18 in.

The Pegu Yomas have a general elevation of from Boo to 1200 ft., while the central range averages from 2000 to 3 000 ft.

In any case results deduced from the annual wave must be expected to vary in different years according to the distribution of the rainfall, as the values represent averages depending chiefly on the diffusion of heat by percolating water.

Ash averages 5.7 per cent., about half of which is soluble in water.

The rate per head of population within the United Kingdom has not increased much during recent years, and in the Australasian colonies it has apparently fallen greatly as compared with recorded averages of 12 lb per head in Victoria and 9 lb in New South Wales in 1884.

It averages 40 percent, or $13,000 per person per year.

The above table shows the developments of French trade during the years from 1876 to 1905 by means of quinquennial averages.

Our direct knowledge of matter can, however, never be more than a rough knowledge of the general average behaviour of its molecules; for the smallest material speck that is sensible to our coarse perceptions contains myriads of atoms. The properties of the most minute portion of matter which we can examine are thus of the nature of averages.

The pay of the village cure averages £80 a year and a house.

The prices below are the annual averages for all Indian teas sold in the London public auction market during the years stated.

Thus the number of men maintained under arms (without calling up the reserves) is as high as 75,000 during certain periods of the year and averages nearly 60,000.

The farms are of comparatively small size, the average cultivated area of the holdings in 1894 being 63 acres, and the hired labour averages about two men for each farm.

The rainfall averages 223 in.

A little coal is mined and some rye, wheat, oats, barley and vegetables are grown, although the period during which vegetation can grow averages less than ioo days.

In these districts the annual rainfall averages 26 in., whereas over extensive breadths in the west it exceeds too in., in Glencroe being nearly 130 in., and on the top of Ben Nevis it may reach 150 in.

In the inter-andine region the variations in temperature are frequent and the averages comparatively low.

Moreover, the looseness of his statements and the rashness of his inferences regarding statistical averages make him, as a great authority has remarked, the enfant terrible of moral statisticians.

The entrance, which is encumbered by neither bar nor rock, averages about 260 yds.

At Cherrapunji in the Khasi hills it averages upwards of 500 in.

These averages are based on the observations of seven years only.

The male height averages 5 ft.

The length of the valley is about 450 m., its breadth averages about 40 m.

Its charges are numerous in proportion to its membership, having an average of 134 members, while the Church of Scotland averages 497 and the United Free Church 313 members for each congregation.

The electrical pressure required to force a current of this intensity through the solution, and to overcome a certain opposing electromotive force arising from the more electro-negative impurities of the anode, depends upon the composition of the bath and of the anodes, the distance between the electrodes, and the temperature, but under the usual working conditions averages o-3 volt for every pair of electrodes in series.

The "Thick Seam" of Margherita, in Upper Assam, averages 50 ft., and in some places reaches as much as 80 ft.