average
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăvʹ(ə)rĭj
ipa: /ˈæv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: averages
Etymology: From Middle French avarie, from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria (which is possibly from Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya, “damaged goods”), from عَوَار (ʕawār, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, “to lose an eye”)) + English suffix -age.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
text: 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.
ref: 1955 June, 'Mercury', “Over 200 Miles Per Hour”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
examples: text: The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
The arithmetic mean.
synonyms: mean
hypernyms: mean
coordinate_terms: geometric mean
harmonic mean
quadratic mean
weighted mean
;
median
;
mode
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2008, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment, page 219:
topics: law
qualifier: marine
glosses: Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
glosses: Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
glosses: Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
examples: text: batting average
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
Coordinate terms: sense: measure of central tendency
word: arithmetic mean
sense: measure of central tendency
word: geometric mean
sense: measure of central tendency
word: harmonic mean
sense: measure of central tendency
word: mean
sense: measure of central tendency
word: median
sense: measure of central tendency
word: mode
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: above average
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: arithmetic average
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: average atomic mass
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: averager
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: batting average
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: below average
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: bowling average
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word: deaverage
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: earned run average
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word: general average
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word: goal average
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word: grade point average
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word: gyroaverage
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: height above average terrain
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word: law of averages
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word: moving average
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word: national average
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word: on average
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word: particular average
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word: rolling average
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word: slugging average
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word: space average
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word: subaverage
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word: time-average
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word: time average
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word: time-average equation
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word: weighted average
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: weighted-average cost of capital
sense: terms derived from average (noun)
word: z-average