Meaning of average | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. Middle-sized.
3. Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
4. half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole)
5. The arithmetic mean.
6. half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole)
7. Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
8. middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives)
9. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
   dated
10. average (of or related to the arithmatic middle in a set of values)
11. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
    obsolete
12. average (of or related to a representative example of a group)
13. An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

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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”

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