mean

Roget category 29

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.3. Quantity
›› 1.3.2. Comparative quantity

#29. Mean

noun

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.

verb

split the difference — take the average etc. n. — reduce to a mean etc. n. — strike a balance, pair off.

adjective

mean, intermediate — middle etc. 68 — average — neutral.
mediocre, middle-class — commonplace etc. (unimportant) 643.

adverb

on an average, in the long run — taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all — communibus annis [Lat.], in round numbers.

phrase

medium tenuere beati [Lat.].

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