Average

Definition

average /'ævǝrÇdʒ/ n ၁။ [C] ပ်မ္းမွ်။ ႀကိတ္ႏႈန္း။ The average of 4, 5 and 9 is 6. ❍ They have an average of just over two children per family. ၂။ [U] ပံုမွန္စံႏႈန္း။ These marks are well above/ below average. ❍ Unemployment here is around the national average. ဒီမွာရိွတဲ့ အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ႏႈန္း က တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးနဲ႔ အတူတူေလာက္ပါပဲ။ We fail about two students a year on average. adj ၁။ ပ်မ္းမွ်။ The average age of the students is 19. ❍ an average wind speed of 40 mph ❍ The average temperature in Oxford last month was 18½C. ၂။ သာမန္။ children of average intelligence ❍ Rainfall is about average for the time of year. ❍ ( derog ) a fairly average game. ကစားပြဲကေတာ့ ေတာ္႐ံုသင့္႐ံုပါပဲ။ v ၁။ ပ်မ္းမွ်ရိွသည္။ ပ်မ္းမွ်ျဖစ္သည္။ Pay rises this year averaged 2%. ❍ This car averages 40 miles to the gallon. ❍ The rainfall averages 36 inches a year. ၂။ ပ်မ္းမွ်ႏႈန္းရွာသည္။ Her earnings are averaged over the whole period. ❏ average out (at sth) [ PHRV ] ပ်မ္းမွ်က်သည္။ Meals average out at about £ 10 per head. ❍ Sometimes I pay, sometimes he pays—it seems to average out (ie result in a fair balance) in the end. ❏ average sth out (at sth) [ PHRV ] ပ်မ္းမွ်ဳ တြက္ၾကည့္ သည္။ Averaged out over a period, industrial accidents occur at least twice a week.

Examples

1. Incomes here are nowhere near the national average.
2. [above/below average] : Her performance in the test was way below average.
3. Add 20
4. 10
5. and 30 and find the average.
6. [average of] : Each of the people in the study lost an average of six pounds in weight.