Dictionary Check: average

"average" is a valid word!

Scrabble 11 points
Words with Friends 13 points

Definition

adjective

approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

Example: "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"
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lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

Example: "average people"
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lacking exceptional quality or ability

Example: "a novel of average merit"
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around the middle of a scale of evaluation

Example: "an orange of average size"
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relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution

Example: "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"
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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)

Example: "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"
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