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Adjective average has 6 senses
- average, mean - 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"; "the mean annual rainfall"
Antonym: abnormal (indirect, via normal)
- average, ordinary - lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
Antonym: uncommon (indirect, via common)
- average, fair, mediocre, middling - of no exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
Antonym: extraordinary (indirect, via ordinary)
- average, intermediate, medium - around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"
Antonym: immoderate (indirect, via moderate)
- modal, average - relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"
Antonym: abnormal (indirect, via normal)
- median, average - relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"
Antonym: abnormal (indirect, via normal)
Noun average has 1 sense
- average, norm - a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes"
--1 is a kind of statistic
--1 has particulars:
Verb average has 3 senses
- average, average out - amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"
--1 is one way to total, number, add up, come, amount
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- average - achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"
--2 is one way to achieve, accomplish, attain, reach
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- average, average out - compute the average of
--3 is one way to calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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