Definition of "average"

But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 11

Historically, the courts have allowed a general average claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril. […] The court awarded the carrier the general average claim. It noted that “a ship′s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general average.

2008, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment, page 219

We tend to think that exceptionally attractive men and women are outstanding but the fact is that they are more average than most.

2002, Andy Turnbull, The Synthetic Beast: When Corporations Come to Life, page 12

Things that never would occur to more average children, with and without AD/HD, will give these children nightmares.

2004, Deirdre V. Lovecky, Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits, page 75

In other words, highly attractive people like highly attractive communicators and more average people like more average communicators.

2009, Susan T. Fiske, Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology, page 73

The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average. However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times.

2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 228

But what the vast majority of the populace doesn′t realise is the fact that he′s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he′s only a very average attorney.

2005, Brad Knight, Laci Peterson: The Whole Story: Laci, Scott, and Amber's Deadly Love Triangle, page 308

In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.

2009, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side, page 62

The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.

1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The roller-bearing A1s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 643

Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]

1872, Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds