1. 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.
2. a typical amount, rate, degree, etc.; norm.
3. arithmetic mean.
4. a quantity intermediate to a set of quantities.
5. 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.

6. of or relating to an average; estimated by average; forming an average: The average rainfall there is 180 inches.
7. typical; common; ordinary: The average secretary couldn't handle such a workload. His grades were nothing special, only average.

8. to find an average value for (a variable quantity); reduce to a mean: We averaged the price of milk in five neighborhood stores.
9. (of a variable quantity) to have as its arithmetic mean: Wheat averages 56 pounds to a bushel.
10. to do or have on the average: He averages seven hours of sleep a night.

11. to have or show an average: to average as expected.

12. to purchase more of a security or commodity at a lower price to reduce the average cost of one's holdings.
13. 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.
14. to purchase more of a security or commodity at a higher price to take advantage of a contemplated further rise in prices.

15. usually; typically: She can read 50 pages an hour, on the average.

1. the typical or normal amount, quality, degree, etc
2. the result obtained by adding the numbers or quantities in a set and dividing the total by the number of members in the set
3. (of a continuously variable ratio, such as speed) the quotient of the differences between the initial and final values of the two quantities that make up the ratio
4. maritime law
• a loss incurred or damage suffered by a ship or its cargo at sea
• the equitable apportionment of such loss among the interested parties
5. a simple or weighted average of the prices of a selected group of securities computed in order to facilitate market comparisons
6. usually; typically

7. usual or typical
8. mediocre or inferior
9. constituting a numerical average
10. approximately typical of a range of values

11. to obtain or estimate a numerical average of
12. to assess the general quality of
13. to perform or receive a typical number of
14. to divide up proportionately
15. to amount to or be on average
16. to purchase additional securities in a holding whose price has fallen (average down) or risen (average up) in anticipation of a speculative profit after further increases in price

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