average
average is a 7-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
- noun. A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
- noun. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
- noun. A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
- noun. The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
- noun. A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.
- noun. Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
- noun. In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
- adjective. Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.
- adjective. According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
- transitive verb. To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
- transitive verb. To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
- transitive verb. To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
- intransitive verb. To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.
- noun. an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
"he is about average in height"
"the snowfall this month is below average"
- noun. a statistic describing the location of a distribution
"it set the norm for American homes"
- noun. (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
- verb. compute the average of
- verb. achieve or reach on average
"He averaged a C"
- verb. amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
"The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"
- adjective. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
"average people"
"the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
- adjective. around the middle of a scale of evaluation
"an orange of average size"
"intermediate capacity"
- adjective. 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"
- adjective. 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"
- adjective. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
"the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"
- adjective. lacking exceptional quality or ability
"a novel of average merit"
"only a fair performance of the sonata"
Synonyms
norm, ordinary, intermediate, medium, mean, median, modal, fair, mediocre, middling
Common word forms
averaged, averager, averages, averagely, averaging, averageness
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