Meaning of mean | Babel Free

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1. Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js: a software stack for developing web sites with both client-side and server-side use of JavaScript.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
2. A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
   also
3. cruel
4. An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
   obsolete, singular
5. To have intentions of a specified kind; be disposed: They mean well but lack tact.
6. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
7. To be in earnest.
8. The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
   historical
9. Without fail; certainly.
10. Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
11. In any way possible; to any extent: not by any means an easy opponent.
12. The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms.
13. With the use of; owing to: They succeeded by means of patience and sacrifice.
14. Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
15. In no sense; certainly not: This remark by no means should be taken lightly.
16. Not extreme:central, intermediate, medial, median, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, midway.
17. arm بِدَناءَه، بِخساسَه оскъдно avaramente skoupě niedrig ondskabsfuldt μίζερα, δύστροπα, άθλια de forma mezquina alatult ازروی پستی halpamaisesti chichement בְאוֹרַח שָׁפָל, בְּאוֹפֶן עָלוּב नीचता से, पाजीपन से nisko, podlo szegényesen, szűkösen; aljasan, hitványul; zsugorian secara jahat fátæklega; smásálarlega meschinamente; avaramente 卑劣に 초라하게 prastai, piktai, šykščiai skopi; zemiski; pieticīgi dengan kejam gemeen, armzaligsimpelt; ondskapsfullt nędznie د رذالت له مخى avaramente sărăcăcio...
18. onbeskof دَناءَه، حَقارَه подлост avareza lakota die Niedrigkeit ondskabsfuldhed μιζέρια, αθλιότητα, κακίαtacañería, mezquinidad alatus پستی halpamaisuus avariceקמצנות, נבזות नीचता niskost, podlost aljasság; kicsinyesség kekikiran níska meschinità; avarizia 卑劣さ 초라함 šykštumas skopums; zemiskums; nabadzība kekejaman krenterigheid, gemeenheid, armzaligheidondskap; gemenhet; gjerrighetskąpstwo رذالت avareza zgârcenie; josnicie подлость; скупость lakomosť skopost zlobnost simpelhet, torftighet, ge...
19. (also meany) (slang) a mean, bad and selfish person. onbeskofte persoon إنْسان حَقير، خَسيس، أناني лош човек malvado hamoun, lakomec der Geizkragen egoist κακός, τσιγκούνης mala persona õeluskott خودخواه pahis sale type אדם רע, קמצן बुरा और स्वार्थी škrtica kicsinyes ember, egy„szenyó” orang yang rendah budinya (individuo meschino) けちな[]やつ 구두쇠 godišius zemisks cilvēks, gnīda orang yang kejam gierigaard, gemeen persoon slemming, egoist sknera, chytrus خود خواه скупердяй žgrloš, vydridruch skop...
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Examples

“To say truth, it is a meane full of uncertainty and danger.”

“You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements.”

“Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean.”

“Mr Obama produced an only slightly less ambitious goal for deficit reduction than the House Republicans, albeit working from a more forgiving baseline: $4 trillion over 12 years compared to $4.4 trillion over 10 years. But the means by which he would achieve it are very different.”

“Verily in this treatise this hath been mine only purpose; and the mean to bring the same to effect hath been such as whereby I studied to profit wholesomely, not to please delicately.”

“That it was lawful and meritorious to kill and destroy the king, and all the said hereticks. — The mean to effect it, they concluded to be, that, 1. The king, the queen, the prince, the lords spiritual and temporal, the knights and burgoses of the parliament, should be blown up with powder. 2. That the whole royal issue male should be destroyed. S. That they would lake into their custody Elizabeth and Mary the king's daughters, and proclaim the lady Elizabeth queen. 4. That they should feign a Proclamation in the name of Elizabeth, in which no mention should be made of alteration of religion, nor that they were parties to the treason, until they had raised power to perform the same; and then to proclaim, all grievances in the kingdom should be reformed.”

“a. 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Apply desperate physic: / We must not now use balsamum, but fire, / The smarting cupping-glass, for that's the mean / To purge infected blood, such blood as hers.”

“Then will not this constitution be a kind of mean between aristocracy and oligarchy?”

“as a mean, it implies certain extremes between which it lies, namely the more and the less”

“1875, William Smith and Samuel Cheetham, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Little, Brown and Company, volume 1, page 10, s.v. Accentus Ecclesiasticus, It presents a sort of mean between speech and song, continually inclining towards the latter, never altogether leaving its hold on the former; it is speech, though always attuned speech, in passages of average interest and importance; it is song, though always distinct and articulate song, in passages demanding more fervid utterance.”

“Of these [rattles] they have Base, Tenor, Countertenor, Meane, and Treble.”

“Note that (1.41) is simply the probability-weighted mean without any explicit allowance for the stratification; each observation is weighted by its inflation factor and the total divided by the total of the inflation factors for the survey.”

“Luckily, even though the arithmetic mean is unusable, both the harmonic and geometric means settle to precise values as the amount of data increases.”

“The generalized power means include power means, certain Gini means, in particular the counter-harmonic means.”

“...if four numbers be in proportion, the product of the first and last, or of the two extremes, is equal to the product of the second and third, or of the two means.”

“Using the means-extremes property of proportions, you know that the product of the extremes equals the product of the means. The ratio t/4 = 5/2 can be rewritten as t:4 = 5:2, in which the extremes are t and 2, and the means are 4 and 5.”

“In #92;frac#123;18#125;#123;27#125;#61;#92;frac23, the product of the means is 2#92;cdot27, and the product of the extremes is 18#92;cdot3. Both products are 54.”

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