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noun. A number that typifies a set of numbers of which it is a function.

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noun. An intermediate level or degree.

noun. The usual or ordinary kind or quality.

noun. The ratio of a team's or player's successful performances such as wins, hits, or goals, divided by total opportunities for successful performance, such as games, times at bat, or shots.

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noun. The loss of a ship or cargo, caused by damage at sea.

noun. The incurrence of damage or loss of a ship or cargo at sea.

noun. The equitable distribution of such a loss among concerned parties.

noun. A charge incurred through such a loss.

noun. Small expenses or charges that are usually paid by the master of a ship.

adjective. Of, relating to, or constituting an average.

adjective. Being intermediate between extremes, as on a scale.

adjective. Usual or ordinary in kind or character.

adjective. Assessed in accordance with the law of averages.

intransitive verb. To calculate the average of.

intransitive verb. To do or have an average of.

intransitive verb. To distribute proportionately.

intransitive verb. To be or amount to an average.

phrasal verb. To purchase shares of the same security at successively lower prices in order to reduce the average price of one's position.

phrasal verb. To purchase shares of the same security at successively higher prices in order to achieve a larger position at an average price that is lower than the current market value.

noun. A mode of estimating, by comparison, the strength or weakness of a billiard play.

noun. In cricket: The aggregate number of runs a batsman has scored, divided by the number of his completed innings.

noun. The aggregate number of runs scored from a bowler, divided by the number of batsmen he has ‘dismissed.’

noun. The stubble and grass left in corn-fields after harvest.

To find the arithemetical mean of, as unequal sums or quantities; reduce to a mean.

To result in, as an arithmetical mean term; amount to, as a mean sum or quantity: as, wheat averages 56 pounds to the bushel.

To divide among a number proportionally; divide the total amount of by the number of equal shares: as, to average a loss.

noun. In old law, a kind of service owed by tenants to their superior.

noun. A duty or tax upon goods.

noun. A small charge payable by the shippers of goods to the master of the ship, over and above the freight, for his care of the goods. Hence the clause, in bills of lading, “paying so much freight, with primage and average accustomed.”

noun. A small charge paid by the master on account of the ship and cargo, such as pilotage, towage, etc.: called more specifically petty average.

noun. A loss, or the sum paid on account of a loss (such as that of an anchor), when the general safety is not in question, and which falls on the owner of the particular property lost: called more specifically particular average.

noun. A contribution made by the owners of a ship's freight and cargo, in proportion to their several interests, to make good a loss that has been sustained or an expense incurred for the general safety of the ship and cargo.

noun. A sum or quantity intermediate to a number of different sums or quantities, obtained by adding them together and dividing the result by the number of quantities added; an arithmetical mean proportion. Thus, if four persons lose respectively $10, $20, $30, and $40, the average loss by the four is $25.

noun. Any medial amount, estimate, or general statement based on a comparison of a number of diverse specific cases; a medium.

intransitive verb. To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average

noun. That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

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noun. A tariff or duty on goods, etc.

noun. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

noun. A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.

noun. The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.

noun. a contribution made, by all parties concerned in a sea adventure, toward a loss occasioned by the voluntary sacrifice of the property of some of the parties in interest for the benefit of all. It is called general average, because it falls upon the gross amount of ship, cargo, and freight at risk and saved by the sacrifice.

noun. signifies the damage or partial loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers.

noun. are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo. In the clause commonly found in bills of lading, “primage and average accustomed,” average means a kind of composition established by usage for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average.

noun. A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean.

noun. Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.

"At Tavoy, on the Tenasserim coast, the maximum rate of productiveness of the rice land was, in 1825, and is still believed to be, nearly the same as the average of Siam; while their _average_ was only twenty-fold."

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