Usually means: Typical value summarizing a dataset.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. average: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. average: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. average: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. average: Collins English Dictionary
  5. average: Vocabulary.com
  6. Average, average: Wordnik
  7. average: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. average: Wiktionary
  9. average: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. average: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. average: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. average: Dictionary.com
  13. average (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. average: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Average: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Average: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. average: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. average: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  25. average: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. average: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Average: bizterms.net
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Average: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  8. Average: Moneyterms
  9. Average: Management Dictionary
  10. Glossary of Media Terms (No longer online)
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. average: Legal dictionary
  13. Average: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  15. Average: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  16. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. average: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  3. average: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. average: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Average: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. average: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. average: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
noun:  (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
noun:  (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
noun:  Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
noun:  Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
noun:  (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
adjective:  (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
adjective:  Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
adjective:  Typical.
adjective:  (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
verb:  (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
verb:  (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
verb:  (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
verb:  (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
noun:  (UK, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

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