average

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

averages

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more average

Superlative

most average

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

average

past (v2)

averaged

past participle (v3)

averaged

present participle

averaging

3rd person singular

averages

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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

   • The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
   • You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.

2. 2.A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

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

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

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

   • I soon found I was only an average chess player.

2. 2.Typical.

   • The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
   • Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.
   • We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.

3. 3.Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.(informal)

   • In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.
   • The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average. However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.
   • But what the vast majority of the populace doesn′t realise is the fact that he′s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he′s only a very average attorney.

4. 4.Constituting or relating to the average.

   • The average age of the participants was 18.5.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

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

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