Definition of Average

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Average

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

A tariff or duty on goods, etc.

Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.

The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.

A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.

Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.

In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.

According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.

To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.

To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.

To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.

To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.

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Average Quotations

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
Kurt Cobain

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Robert H. Schuller

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn

Average Translations

average in Afrikaans is gemiddeld, medium
average in Danish is midte, gennemsnitlig, gennemsnit
average in Dutch is gemiddeld
average in Finnish is keskiarvo, keskipiste
average in French is moyenne
average in German is Durchschnitts..., Durchschnitt
average in Latin is mediocris
average in Norwegian is gjennomsnitt
average in Spanish is mediania, promedio

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