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Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb average Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb average Entailment of verb average Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb average 3 senses of average Sense 1 average, average out => total, number, add up come amount Sense 2 average => achieve, accomplish, attain, reach Sense 3 average, average out => calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out reckon, figure Familiarity of verb average average used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb average Sense 1 average, average out => total, number, add up come amount -------------- Sense 2 average => achieve, accomplish, attain, reach -------------- Sense 3 average, average out => calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out reckon, figure -------------- Grep of noun average average average cost averageness batting average dow-jones industrial average fielding average Overview of noun average The noun average has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (13) average, norm -- (a statistic describing the location of a distribution: "it set the norm for American homes") Overview of verb average The verb average has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (15) average, average out -- (amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40") 2. (2) average -- (achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C") 3. (1) average, average out -- (compute the average of) Overview of adj average The adj average has 6 senses (first 4 from tagged texts) 1. (43) average, mean -- ((statistics) 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"; "the mean annual rainfall") 2. (6) average, ordinary -- (lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street") 3. (4) average, fair, mediocre, middling -- (of no exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best") 4. (2) average, intermediate, medium -- (around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers") 5. modal, average -- ((statistics) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30") 6. median, average -- ((statistics) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000") Antonyms of adj average 6 senses of average Sense 1 average, mean(postnominal) INDIRECT (VIA normal) -> abnormal Sense 2 average, ordinary INDIRECT (VIA common) -> uncommon Sense 3 average, fair, mediocre, middling INDIRECT (VIA ordinary) -> extraordinary Sense 4 average, intermediate, medium INDIRECT (VIA moderate) -> immoderate Sense 5 modal(postnominal), average INDIRECT (VIA normal) -> abnormal Sense 6 median(postnominal), average INDIRECT (VIA normal) -> abnormal Similarity of adj average 6 senses of average Sense 1 average, mean(postnominal) => normal (vs. abnormal) Sense 2 average, ordinary => common (vs. uncommon) Sense 3 average, fair, mediocre, middling => ordinary (vs. extraordinary) Sense 4 average, intermediate, medium => moderate (vs. immoderate) Sense 5 modal(postnominal), average => normal (vs. abnormal) Sense 6 median(postnominal), average => normal (vs. abnormal) Attributes of adj average Familiarity of adj average average used as an adjective is common (polysemy count = 6) Grep of adj average average Overview of noun average The noun average has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (13) average, norm -- (a statistic describing the location of a distribution: "it set the norm for American homes") Overview of verb average The verb average has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (15) average, average out -- (amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40") 2. (2) average -- (achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C") 3. (1) average, average out -- (compute the average of) Overview of adj average The adj average has 6 senses (first 4 from tagged texts) 1. (43) average, mean -- ((statistics) 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"; "the mean annual rainfall") 2. (6) average, ordinary -- (lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street") 3. (4) average, fair, mediocre, middling -- (of no exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best") 4. (2) average, intermediate, medium -- (around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers") 5. modal, average -- ((statistics) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30") 6. median, average -- ((statistics) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000")
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