average
平均,平均数,平均水平,平均而言
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- : a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- : a typical amount, rate, degree, etc.; norm.
- : Statistics. arithmetic mean.
- : Mathematics. a quantity intermediate to a set of quantities.
- : Commerce. a charge paid by the master of a ship for such services as pilotage or towage.an expense, partial loss, or damage to a ship or cargo.the incidence of such an expense or loss to the owners or their insurers.an equitable apportionment among all the interested parties of such an expense or loss.Compare general average, particular average.
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- : of or relating to an average; estimated by average; forming an average: The average rainfall there is 180 inches.
- : typical; common; ordinary: The average secretary couldn't handle such a workload. His grades were nothing special, only average.
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av·er·aged, av·er·ag·ing.
- : to find an average value for; reduce to a mean: We averaged the price of milk in five neighborhood stores.
- : to have as its arithmetic mean: Wheat averages 56 pounds to a bushel.
- : to do or have on the average: He averages seven hours of sleep a night.
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av·er·aged, av·er·ag·ing.
- : to have or show an average: to average as expected.
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- : average down, to purchase more of a security or commodity at a lower price to reduce the average cost of one's holdings.
- : average out, to come out of a security or commodity transaction with a profit or without a loss.to reach an average or other figure: His taxes should average out to about a fifth of his income.
- : average up, to purchase more of a security or commodity at a higher price to take advantage of a contemplated further rise in prices.
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Examples
That is roughly in line with a Post average of recent polls from the state that put Biden’s advantage at seven points.
FiveThirtyEight’s average of state polls at the end of the 2016 race gave Clinton a five-point lead in Wisconsin and an eight-point lead in Minnesota.
Since the lockout of 2004-05, five cup winners have averaged fewer goals per game.
The Wisconsin poll is consistent with other recent polls in the state, with The Post’s average showing Biden’s margin at seven points, narrower than in midsummer but not much different from what it was immediately after the GOP convention.
That is a somewhat larger margin than a Washington Post average of recent polls in the state, which shows Biden’s lead to be seven percentage points.
Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.
On average, the vaccine has an efficacy of about 60 percent.
Average age ranges from 45 to 65, with her youngest client at 18 and the oldest in her 80s.
Ramos was 38—nearly two decades older than the average recruit.
All because Murthy believes that gun violence, which kills an average of 86 Americans every day, is a public health issue.
I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
Though the average speaker is generally limited by one type of voice, which he varies somewhat, it is not often disguised.
I should judge that a peck of corn is about the average product of a day's work through all this region.
The average citizen of three generations ago was probably not aware that he was an extreme individualist.
He was a pretty bright sort, that same Goodell, quick-witted, nimble of tongue above the average Englishman.