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say it: AV-ur-ij
average is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value". It carries 12 recorded senses.
around the middle of a scale of evaluation
“an orange of average size”
“intermediate capacity”
“medium bombers”
(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
sport
an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
“he is about average in height”
“the snowfall this month is below average”
amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
“The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for average come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.