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Etymology 1

From Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria (which possibly from Arabic ???????????‎ (?aw?riyya, “damaged goods”), from ??????‎ (?aw?r, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from ??????‎ (?awira, “to lose an eye”)) + English suffix -age.

Noun

average (plural averages)

1. (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
2. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. [from c. 1735]
3. (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. [from 15th c.]
4. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
5. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
6. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
7. (Britain, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

Adjective

average (comparative more average, superlative most average)

1. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
2. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
3. Typical.
4. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

Verb

average (third-person singular simple present averages, present participle averaging, simple past and past participle averaged)

1. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
2. (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
3. (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
4. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.

Etymology 2

From Middle English/Anglo-Norman, from aver (“horse or other beast of burden, service required from the same”) from Old English eafor (“obligation to carry goods and convey messages for one's lord”) from aferian (“to remove, take away”); + -age.

Noun

average (plural averages)

1. (Britain, 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.

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