Average

Quick meaning: Average is a noun meaning (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (law, nautical) A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
2. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
3. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
4. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
5. Typical.
6. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
7. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

Example Sentences

batting average

The average age of the participants was 18.5.

I soon found I was only an average chess player.

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

Word Forms

• averages
• averaging
• averaged

Synonyms for average

Depending on context, synonyms include expectation, mediocre, medium, middling, unremarkable, so-so.

Antonyms for average

Common opposites include extraordinary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include modal, intermediate, middling, common, medium, norm.

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