'average' definitions:

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: average, mean(a)]

Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" [syn: average, 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" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling]

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" [syn: average, 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" [syn: modal(a), average]

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" [syn: median(a), average]

A statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" [syn: average, 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"

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, average out]

Achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"

Compute the average of [syn: average, average out]