| 单词 | on an average |
| 释义 | > as lemmason an average 5. transferred. The distribution of the aggregate inequalities (in quantity, quality, intensity, etc.) of a series of things among all the members of the series, so as to equalize them, and ascertain their common or mean quantity, etc., when so treated; the determination or statement of an arithmetical mean; a medial estimate. Now only in phrases at an average, on an average. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [noun] > mean middlingOE middlelOE meanc1450 neutralityc1475 moyen1484 temper?1523 mediety1573 medium1593 temperature1598 temperament1604 intermedial1605 median1635 intermediate1650 average1737 middle term1754 mesne1821 intermediacy1836 intermediary1865 the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > average [phrase] > on average one with anothera1687 at an average1737 on a par1767 up to par1899 1737 G. Berkeley Querist: Pt. III (new ed.) §203 Whether..Bermingham alone doth not, upon an Average, circulate every Week..to the value of fifty thousand Pounds. 1740 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) Average, the taking of several things together, and considering the profit of the one, and the loss of the other, so as to make a mean or common price. 1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 3 Our wells, at an average, run to about sixty-three feet. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. v. 88 Under such conditions and averages as it can. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 188 Earthquake-shocks occur, on an average, about three times a week. < as lemmas |
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