Regular vs Average - What's the difference?
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(Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to (secular)).
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Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
(geometry, of a polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
(geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
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(now, rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
(chiefly, US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
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, title= (chiefly, military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
(colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
Belonging to a monastic order or community.
(botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
(crystallography) isometric
(snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward. BBC Sport,
(analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
A frequent customer, client or business partner.
(Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
Anything that is normal or standard.
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(legal, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
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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.
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(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
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(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
Average is a synonym of regular.
As adjectives the difference between regular and average
is that regular is bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to {{term|secular}}) while average is constituting or relating to the average.As nouns the difference between regular and average
is that regular is a member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve) while average is financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.As a verb average is
to compute the arithmetic mean of.regular
English
(wikipedia regular)Adjective
(en adjective)- A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected.
- April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner.
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- regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy
- a regular''' flower; a '''regular sea urchin
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Synonyms
* (with constant frequency) uniform * (normal) normal * (grammar) weak (verbs) * (frequent) steadyAntonyms
* (with constant frequency) irregular * (normal) irregular * (obeying rules) irregular * (grammar) irregular, strong (verbs) * (snowboarding) goofyCoordinate terms
* (snowboarding) switchNoun
(en noun)- Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.
- This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars .
- You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars , some are shooters, and some are peewees.
References
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(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