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  1. noun Mathematics A number that typifies a set of numbers of which it is a function.
  2. noun Mathematics See arithmetic mean.
  3. noun An intermediate level or degree: near the average in size.
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  1. From Middle English averay, charge above the cost of freight, from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria, duty, from Arabic 'awārīya, damaged goods, from 'awār, blemish, from 'awira, to be damaged; see ʿwr in Semitic roots.

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  1. = Scots avarage, contr. arrage, arage, now arriage, especially in the combination arriage and carriage; from late Middle English average, earlier only in Middle Latin averagium or Old French average, apparently the same, with suffix -age, as Middle Latin avera, a kind of service mentioned in Domesday Book: usually referred to aver, a beast of burden, and defined accordingly; but this is doubtful, avera being more prob. a reflex, simulating aver, of Old French ovre, ævre, modern F. æuvre, from Latin opera, work: see opera, ure, manæuver.
  2. Earlymod. English also averige, averidge, avaridge, from late Middle English average, the same, with suffix -age (found only in English and Anglo-L. averagium), as late Middle English averays (for averys?), from French avaris, “decay of wares or merchandise, leaking of wines, also the charges of the carriage or measuring thereon, also the fees or veils of a cook, etc.” (Cotgrave), singular properly avarie = Spanish avería = Portuguese Italian avaria, in Middle Latin avaria, averia; cf. Middle Dutch avarij, Dutch haverij = German haferei, haverie = Danish havari = Swedish haveri, from Roman Origin disputed; the orig. sense, ‘a duty on goods,’ suggests a connection with Middle Latin averia, goods, property: see aver. Perhaps avania, through its apparently more orig. form avaria, is to be referred to the same source: see avania.
  3. from average, n.
  4. Also averaige, averish, prob. an expansion (in reverse imitation of Scots arriage, arrage, for average) of arrish, ersh: see arrish, ersh, eddish.
 

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