noun

• (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
  "You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix."
• (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
  "The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18."
• (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
  "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."
• (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
  "batting average"

adj

• (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
  "The average age of the participants was 18.5."
• (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
  "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."

verb

• (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
  "If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18."
• (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
  "The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C."
• (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
  "to average a loss"
• (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
  "Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]"

noun

• (UK, law, 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.