average

average (http://definr.com/average)

     adj 1: (statistics) 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" [syn: mean(a)]
     2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly
        encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common)
        man in the street" [syn: ordinary]
     3: 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" [syn: fair, mediocre, middling]
     4: 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" [syn: intermediate, medium]
     5: (statistics) relating to or constituting the most frequent
        value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American
        novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: modal(a)]
     6: (statistics) 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"
        [syn: median(a)]
     n : a statistic describing the location of a distribution: "it
         set the norm for American homes" [syn: norm]
     v 1: amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The
          number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"
          [syn: average out]
     2: achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"
     3: compute the average of [syn: average out]