average

CEFRA2

/ˈæv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

noun · adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A number found by adding amounts and dividing by their count.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Typical or ordinary in size, quality, or amount.

Examples

  • The average age of participants was 52 years.

  • Your marks were well below average this term.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

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

  3. The arithmetic mean.

More examples

In context

  • Your work is below average.

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

  • You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.

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Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

To find the mean grade, you must calculate the blank of all test scores.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

English -age English average Not entirely certain. The oldest meaning in English is “customs duty”. Borrowed from Middle French avarie (“damage to ship or cargo”), from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria where it is first attested in the 12th century in the context of Mediterranean trade. From there most sources trace it to Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya, “damaged goods”), from عَوَار (ʕawār, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, “to lose an eye”), but the OED gives it a Romance derivation from Italian avere (“property, goods”) or the like. The English suffix -age was added in analogy to words like damage.