ALL meanings of subaverage
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S s - noun subaverage a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester. 1
- noun subaverage a typical amount, rate, degree, etc.; norm. 1
- noun subaverage Statistics. arithmetic mean. 1
- noun subaverage Mathematics. a quantity intermediate to a set of quantities. 1
- noun subaverage Commerce. a charge paid by the master of a ship for such services as pilotage or towage. an expense, partial loss, or damage to a ship or cargo. the incidence of such an expense or loss to the owners or their insurers. an equitable apportionment among all the interested parties of such an expense or loss. Compare general average, particular average. 1
- adjective subaverage of or relating to an average; estimated by average; forming an average: The average rainfall there is 180 inches. 1
- adjective subaverage typical; common; ordinary: The average secretary couldn't handle such a workload. His grades were nothing special, only average. 1
- verb with object subaverage to find an average value for (a variable quantity); reduce to a mean: We averaged the price of milk in five neighborhood stores. 1
- verb with object subaverage (of a variable quantity) to have as its arithmetic mean: Wheat averages 56 pounds to a bushel. 1
- verb with object subaverage to do or have on the average: He averages seven hours of sleep a night. 1
- verb without object subaverage to have or show an average: to average as expected. 1
- idioms subaverage on the / an average, usually; typically: She can read 50 pages an hour, on the average. 1
- adjective subaverage below average 0