Average vs Equal - What's the difference?
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(legal, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
* 2008 , Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment ,
Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
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(statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
(sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
(UK, legal, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
(UK, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
Typical.
* 2002 , Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life ,
* 2004 , Deirdre V. Lovecky, Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits ,
* '2009'', Susan T. Fiske, ''Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology ,
(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
* 2002 , Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002 ,
* 2005 , Brad Knight, Laci Peterson: The Whole Story: Laci, Scott, and Amber's Deadly Love Triangle ,
* 2009 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side ,
(informal) To compute the arithmetic mean of.
Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
To be, generally or on average.
* 1872 Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds
(label) The same in all respects.
* (1671-1743)
Exactly identical, having the same value.
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(label) Fair, impartial.
* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
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* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(label) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
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* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
(label) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(label) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
(mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
To be equivalent to; to match
* 2004 , Mary Levy and Jim Kelly, Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be?
(informal) To have as its consequence.
A person or thing of equal status to others.
* Addison
(obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
In mathematics|lang=en terms the difference between average and equal
is that average is (mathematics) the arithmetic mean while equal is (mathematics) to be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.In informal|lang=en terms the difference between average and equal
is that average is (informal) to compute the arithmetic mean of while equal is (informal) to have as its consequence.As nouns the difference between average and equal
is that average is (legal|marine) financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss while equal is a person or thing of equal status to others.As adjectives the difference between average and equal
is that average is (not comparable) constituting or relating to the average while equal is (label) the same in all respects.As verbs the difference between average and equal
is that average is (informal) to compute the arithmetic mean of while equal is (mathematics) to be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.average
English
(wikipedia average)Noun
(en noun)page 219,
- Historically, the courts have allowed a general average' claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril.The court awarded the carrier the general '''average''' claim. It noted that “a ship?s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general ' average .
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- The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
Usage notes
* (sense) The term average' may refer to the statistical mean, median or mode of a batch, sample, or distribution, or sometimes any other measure of central tendency. Statisticians and responsible news sources are careful to use whichever of these specific terms is appropriate. In common usage, ' average refers to the arithmetic mean. It is, however, a common rhetorical trick to call the most favorable of mean, median and mode the "average" depending on the interpretation of a set of figures that the speaker or writer wants to promote.Coordinate terms
* (measure of central tendency) arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, mean, median, modeDerived terms
* above average * average atomic mass * averager * batting average * below average * bowling average * earned run average * general average * grade point average * height above average terrain * law of averages * moving average * on average * particular average * rolling average * slugging average * subaverage * time average * weighted average * weighted-average cost of capitalAdjective
(en adjective)- The average age of the participants was 18.5.
- I soon found I was only an average chess player.
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- We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.
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- Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.
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- In other words, highly attractive people like highly attractive communicators and more average' people like more ' average communicators.
- The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
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- The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average . However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.
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- But what the vast majority of the populace doesn?t realise is the fact that he?s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he?s only a very average attorney.
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- In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.
Synonyms
* (constituting or relating to the average) mean; expectation (colloquial) * (neither very good nor very bad) mediocre, medium, middle-ranking, middling, unremarkable, so-so, * (typical) conventional, normal, regular, standard, typical, usual, bog-standard (slang) * ordinary, uninspiringAntonyms
* (neither very good nor very bad) extraordinaryDerived terms
* average bear * average Joe * averagely * averagenessVerb
(averag)- If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.
- The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
- to average a loss
- Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build
Derived terms
* average down * average out * average up * averageable * unaveragedequal
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) * (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.
- it could not but much redound to the lustre of your milde and equall Government, when as private persons are hereby animated to thinke ye better pleas'd with publick advice, then other statists have been delighted heretofore with publicke flattery.
- Are not my ways equal ?
- Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem.
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- her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.
- The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.
- It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit.
- whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.
- an equal temper
Usage notes
*Synonyms
* (the same in all respects) identical * (exactly identical) equivalent, identical * (unvarying) even, fair, uniform, unvaryingVerb
- Two plus two equals four.
- There was an even more remarkable attendance figure that underscores the devotion exhibited by our fans, because it was in 1991 that they set a single season in-stadium attendance record that has never been equaled .
- Losing this deal equals losing your job.
- Might does not equal right.
Synonyms
* (to be equal to) be, is * (sense) entail, imply, lead to, mean, result in, spellNoun
(en noun)- We're all equals here.
- This beer has no equal .
- Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.
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