mean
- IPA[mēn]
美式
- the value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average；a condition, quality, or course of action equally removed from two opposite (usually unsatisfactory) extremes
- (of a quantity) calculated as a mean; average；equally far from two extremes
noun: mean, plural noun: means
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. the value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average acid output was calculated by taking the mean of all three samples
- 2. a condition, quality, or course of action equally removed from two opposite (usually unsatisfactory) extremes the mean between two extremes
形容詞
- 1. (of a quantity) calculated as a mean; average by 1989, the mean age at marriage stood at 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men
- 2. equally far from two extremes hope is the mean virtue between despair and presumption
