Definition von „average“ auf Englisch

noun

1. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

   • You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.

2. (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

3. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

   • batting average

adjective

1. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

   • The average age of the participants was 18.5.

2. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

   • I soon found I was only an average chess player.

3. Typical.

   • The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.

4. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

verb

1. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

   • If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.

2. (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

   • The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
   • I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.

3. (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

   • to average a loss

4. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.

noun

1. (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.