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Sounds | ae'verihjh; ae'vrahjh; ae'vrihjh |
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Rhymes | abridge, acknowledge, acreage, and 129 more rhymes in ihjh at the HyperDic website... |
acreage, adage, adjudge, and 82 more rhymes in ahjh at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value. |
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Examples | "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age" |
Synonyms | mean |
Category | statistics |
Similar to | normal |
Meaning | Lacking special distinction, rank, or status. Commonly encountered. |
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Examples | "average people" |
Synonyms | ordinary |
Similar to | common |
Meaning | Of no exceptional quality or ability. |
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Examples | "a novel of average merit"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average" |
Synonyms | fair, mediocre, middling |
Similar to | ordinary |
Meaning | Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures. |
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Examples | "an orange of average size" |
Synonyms | intermediate, medium |
Similar to | moderate |
Meaning | Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution. |
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Synonyms | modal |
Category | statistics |
Similar to | normal |
Meaning | 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). |
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Synonyms | median |
Category | statistics |
Similar to | normal |
Meaning | A statistic describing the location of a distribution. |
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Synonyms | norm |
Category | statistics |
Narrower | age norm; mode, modal value; median, median value; mean, mean value |
Broader | statistic |
Verbs | average; average; average |
Meaning | Amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" |
Synonyms | average out |
Broader | total, number, add up, come, amount |
Nouns | average |
Meaning | Achieve or reach on average. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "He averaged a C" |
Broader | achieve, accomplish, attain, reach |
Nouns | average |
Meaning | Compute the average of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | average out |
Category | arithmetic |
Broader | calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure |
Nouns | average |