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harmonic mean

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a specified set of numbers.

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  • noun mathematics A type of measure of central tendency calculated as the reciprocal of the mean of the reciprocals, ie,

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  • noun the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers

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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. mean
  2. mean value
  3. measure of central tendency

cross-references (4)

Cross-references

  1. arithmetic mean
  2. contraharmonic mean
  3. geometric mean
  4. quadratic mean

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  • deinonychus commented on the word harmonic mean

    This could be an alignment in a role-playing game of some sort...

    December 1, 2011