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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The value obtained by dividing the sum of a set of quantities by the number of quantities in the set.
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- noun statistics, probability The
measure of central tendency of a set of values computed by dividing the sum of the values by their number; commonly called the mean or the average.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
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