average
adj 1: (statistics) approximating the statistical norm or average
or expected value; "the average income in New England
is below that of the nation"; "of average height for
his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" [syn: {mean(a)}]
2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly
encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common)
man in the street" [syn: {ordinary}]
3: of no exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average
merit"; "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" [syn: {fair}, {mediocre}, {middling}]
4: around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical
measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate
capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium
bombers" [syn: {intermediate}, {medium}]
5: (statistics) relating to or constituting the most frequent
value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American
novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: {modal(a)}]
6: (statistics) relating to or constituting the middle value of
an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two
in an even-numbered set); "the median value of 17, 20, and
36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"
[syn: {median(a)}]
n : a statistic describing the location of a distribution: "it
set the norm for American homes" [syn: {norm}]
v 1: amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The
number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"
[syn: {average out}]
2: achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"
3: compute the average of [syn: {average out}]