How to pronounce “average”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. [from c. 1735]
• (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. [from 17th c.]
• (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
• [Adjective]
• (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
• Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
• Typical.
• (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
• (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
• (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
• (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.

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