Average - Definition

adj 1: 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: average, mean(a)]
2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly
encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man
in the street" [syn: average, ordinary]
3: lacking 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: average, fair, mediocre, middling]
4: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of
average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"
[syn: average, intermediate, medium]
5: 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), average]
6: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered
set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with
an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and
36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn:
median(a), average]
n 1: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it
set the norm for American homes" [syn: average, norm]
2: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to
opportunities
3: an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he
is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is
below average"
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, average out]
2: achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"
3: compute the average of [syn: average, average out]