average
Definitions
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The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc. UK, obsolete
- Middle-sized.
- Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole)
- The arithmetic mean.
- half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole)
- Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives)
- Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
- average (of or related to the arithmatic middle in a set of values)
- Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
- average (of or related to a representative example of a group)
- An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
“In conclusion, it may savour of anticlimax to mention⟳ that from May 22 the famous "Sud Express⟳," over the same route, has been covering the 359.7 miles from Paris Austerlitz to Bordeaux in 4 hr. 59 min. daily, at a start-to-stop average of 72.2 m.p.h., and that the northbound train⟳ has been taking 5 hr. 7 min. for an average of 70.3.”
“The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.”
“But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own⟳ poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live⟳ lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
“Historically, the courts have⟳ allowed a general average claim⟳ only where the loss occurred as a result⟳ of the ship being in immediate peril.[…]The court awarded the carrier the general average claim⟳. It noted that “a ship′s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need⟳ not be in actual peril to claim⟳ general average.”
“batting average”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
See also
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