1. Intermédiaire. Taille moyenne.
2. Ordinaire.
3. Passable. Niveau moyen.
1. (Statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; SYN. mean.
2. Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; SYN. intermediate, medium.
3. Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; SYN. ordinary.
4. Of no exceptional quality or ability; SYN. fair, mediocre, middling.
ETYM Old Eng. mene, Old Fren. meiien, French moyen, from Latin medianus that is in the middle, from medius; akin to Eng. mid. Related to Mid.
(Homonym: mien).
1. Used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; SYN. mingy, miserly, little, small, tight.
2. (Slang) Excellent.
Of or relating to the middle part of a range of possible values.
(Of meat) Cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside.
Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; SYN. medium, moderate, mediocre, ordinary.
1. Commonly used or supplied
2. Conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
3. Established or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
4. Regularly and widely used or sold; SYN. stock.
5. (Linguistics) Conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; (American); (British); SYN. received.
ETYM Latin typicus, Greek, from typos type: cf. French typique. Related to Type.
1. Conforming to a type.
2. Exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category.
Error is within plus or minus one standard deviation (±1%) of the nominal specified value, as computed from the total population.
Ce qui est au milieu, ou le plus répandu.
ETYM Old Fren. average, Late Lat. averagium, prob. from Old Fren. aver, French avoir, property, horses, cattle, etc.; prop. infin., to have, from Latin habere to have.
A statistic describing the location of a distribution; SYN. norm.
An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n .
In mathematics, a measure of the average of a number of terms or quantities. The simple arithmetic mean is the average value of the quantities, that is, the sum of the quantities divided by their number. The weighted mean takes into account the frequency of the terms that are summed; it is calculated by multiplying each term by the number of times it occurs, summing the results and dividing this total by the total number of occurrences. The geometric mean of n quantities is the nth root of their product. In statistics, it is a measure of central tendency of a set of data.