average

  1. Noun.  The arithmetic mean.
  2. Noun.  (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode (''see Usage notes below'').
  3. Noun.  (sport) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
  4. Adjective.  (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
  5. Adjective.  Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
  6. Adjective.  Typical.
  7. Adjective.  (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
  8. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To compute the arithmetic mean of.
  9. Verb.  (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

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