What is the meaning of average?

noun

• A statistic describing the location of a distribution.
  • usage: "it set the norm for American homes"
  • synonyms: norm
• Sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities. (
• An intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual.
  • usage: "he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average"

verb

• Amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain.
  • usage: "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"
  • synonyms: average out
• Achieve or reach on average.
  • usage: "He averaged a C"
• Compute the average of.
  • synonyms: average out

adjective

• Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
  • usage: "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"
  • synonyms: mean
• Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered.
  • usage: "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
  • synonyms: ordinary
• Lacking exceptional quality or ability.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling
• Around the middle of a scale of evaluation.
  • usage: "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"
  • synonyms: intermediate, medium
• Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
  • usage: "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"
  • synonyms: modal
• 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. )
  • usage: "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15, 000"
  • synonyms: median