1. (

• average ,
• average_out

) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" ;

2. (

• average

) achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C" ;

3. (

• average ,
• average_out

) compute the average of ;

1. (

• average ,
• mean

) 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" ;

2. (

• average ,
• ordinary ,

) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" ;

3. (

• average ,
• fair ,
• mediocre ,
• middling

) 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" ;

4. (

• average ,
• intermediate ,
• medium

) around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" ;

5. (

• modal ,
• average ,

) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" ;

6. (

• median ,
• 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" ;