average — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

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

   Ví dụ

   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.

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   In conclusion, it may savour of anticlimax to mention that from May 22 the famous "Sud Express," over the same route, has been covering the 359.7 miles from Paris Austerlitz to Bordeaux in 4 hr. 59 min. daily, at a start-to-stop average of 72.2 m.p.h., and that the northbound train has been taking 5 hr. 7 min. for an average of 70.3.

2. Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. The arithmetic mean.

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   mean

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   mean

   Ví dụ

   The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.

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   But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

3. A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

   Ví dụ

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   Historically, the courts have allowed a general average claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril.[…]The court awarded the carrier the general average claim. It noted that “a ship′s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general average.

4. A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

   Cách dùng

   • lỗi thời

5. A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

   Cách dùng

   • không còn dùng

6. An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

   Ví dụ

   batting average

Tính từ

1. Constituting or relating to the average.

   Cách dùng

   • not-comparable

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   meanexpectation

   Ví dụ

   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.

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   comme ci comme çamediocremediummiddlingunremarkableso-so

   Từ trái nghĩa

   extraordinary

   Ví dụ

   I soon found I was only an average chess player.

3. Typical.

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   conventionalnormalregularstandardtypicalusualbog-standard

   Ví dụ

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

   We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.

   Thêm ví dụ (2)

   Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.

   In other words, highly attractive people like highly attractive communicators and more average people like more average communicators.

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

   Cách dùng

   • không trang trọng

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   ordinaryunexceptional

   Ví dụ

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   The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average. However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.

   But what the vast majority of the populace doesn′t realise is the fact that he′s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he′s only a very average attorney.

   In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.

Động từ

1. To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

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

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

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.

   I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.

   Thêm ví dụ (2)

   The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.

   This comes after the center topped the charts last year, becoming the first player at the position since four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal to win the scoring title and the first center to average over 30 PPG in 40 years – Embiid averaged 30.6.

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

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   to average a loss

4. To be, generally or on average.

   Cách dùng

   • nội động từ

   Ví dụ

   Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]

Danh từ

1. The feudal service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

   Cách dùng

   • cách dùng ở Anh
   • không còn dùng

Tính từ

1. approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   mean

   Ví dụ

   the average income in New England is below that of the nation

   of average height for his age

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   the mean annual rainfall

2. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   ordinary

   Ví dụ

   average people

   the ordinary (or common) man in the street

3. lacking exceptional quality or ability

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   fairmediocremiddling

   Ví dụ

   a novel of average merit

   only a fair performance of the sonata

   Thêm ví dụ (3)

   in fair health

   the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average

   the performance was middling at best

4. around the middle of a scale of evaluation

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   intermediatemedium

   Ví dụ

   an orange of average size

   intermediate capacity

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   medium bombers

5. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   modal

   Ví dụ

   the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30

6. 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)

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   median

   Ví dụ

   the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20

   the median income for the year was $15,000

Danh từ

1. a statistic describing the location of a distribution

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   norm

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   statistic

   Ví dụ

   it set the norm for American homes

2. (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   ratio

3. an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   scale value

   Ví dụ

   he is about average in height

   the snowfall this month is below average

Động từ

1. amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   average out

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   totalnumberadd upcomeamount

   Ví dụ

   The number of hours I work per week averages out to 40

2. achieve or reach on average

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   achieveaccomplishattainreach

   Ví dụ

   He averaged a C

3. compute the average of

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   average out

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   calculateciphercyphercomputework outreckonfigure