average : Idioms & Phrases

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average cost

  • noun total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units
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average out

  • verb compute the average of
    average.
  • verb amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
    average.
    • The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40
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batting average

  • noun (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat
    batting average.
    • Ted Williams once had a batting average above .400
  • noun (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds
    • the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12
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dow-jones industrial average

  • noun an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange
    Dow Jones.
    • the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing
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earned run average

  • noun (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched
    ERA.
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fielding average

  • noun (baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances
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General average

  • 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. Kent.
Webster 1913

General average, General Court

  • . See under Average, Court.
Webster 1913

grade point average

  • noun a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted
    GPA.
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Gross average

  • (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; commonly called general average. Bouvier. Burrill.
Webster 1913

hitting average

  • noun (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat
    batting average.
    • Ted Williams once had a batting average above .400
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law of averages

  • noun a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance
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On an average

  • taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities.
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on average

  • adverb typically
    on average.
    • on average he watches three movies a week
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on the average

  • adverb typically
    on average.
    • on average he watches three movies a week
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Particular average

  • 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.
Webster 1913

Petty averages

  • 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. Arnould. Abbott. Phillips.
Webster 1913