Unscramble average

Definition of average

adjective:

• 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". Synonyms: mean.
• lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people", "the ordinary (or common) man in the street". Synonyms: ordinary.
• lacking 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". Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling.
• around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size", "intermediate capacity", "medium bombers". Synonyms: intermediate, medium.
• relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30". Synonyms: modal.
• relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20", "the median income for the year was $15,000". Synonyms: median.

noun:

• a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes". Synonyms: norm.
• (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities.
• an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he is about average in height", "the snowfall this month is below average".

verb:

• amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40". Synonyms: average out.
• achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C".
• compute the average of. Synonyms: average out.

Related words

mean, median, mode.

Words nearby

overage.