A statistic describing the location of a distribution.

synonym: norm.

Roget 29: mean, average; median, mode; balance, medium, mediocrity, generality; golden mean etc. (mid-course) 628; middle etc. 68; compromise etc. 774; middle course, middle state; neutrality.    mediocrity, least common denominator.    ... show more

Dutch: gemiddelde
Polish: średnia

sports The ratio of successful performances to opportunities.

An intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual.

Amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain:
— The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40.

synonym: average out.

Achieve or reach on average.

Compute the average of.

synonym: average out.

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.

synonym: mean.

Roget 29: mean, intermediate; middle etc. 68; average; neutral.    mediocre, middle-class; commonplace etc. (unimportant) 643.    ... show more

Roget 68: middle, medial, mesial [Med.], mean, mid, median, average; middlemost, midmost; mediate; intermediate etc. (interjacent) 228; equidistant; central etc. 222; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric.    ... show more

Polish: przeciętny, średni

Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered:
— Average people.

synonym: ordinary.

Polish: zwyczajny, zwykły

Lacking exceptional quality or ability:
— A novel of average merit.
— The caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average.

synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling.

Roget 651: imperfect; not perfect etc. 650; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped etc. (distort) 243; lame; injured etc. (deteriorated) 659; peccant etc. (bad) 649; frail etc. (weak) 160; inadequate etc. (insufficient) 640; crude etc. (unprepared) 674; incomplete etc. 53; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.    indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average etc. 29; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable^†, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.    secondary, inferior; second-rate, second-best; one-horse [U.S.].    ... show more

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation:
— An orange of average size.

synonyms: intermediate, medium.

Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.

synonym: modal.

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).

synonym: median.