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The arithmetic mean.

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

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

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

Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

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

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

Example: I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.

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

Example: to average a loss

To be, generally or on average.

Constituting or relating to the average.

Example: The average age of the participants was 18.5.

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

Example: I soon found I was only an average chess player.

Typical.

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

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

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.