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Word: mean (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
  • Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
  • Having the mean (''see noun below'') as its value.
  • Low in quality; inferior.
  • Miserly; stingy.
  • obsolete Middling in quality or excellence; moderately good, tolerable.
  • Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
  • Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.

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Noun:

  • Loosely, an intermediate value or range of values; a mid-value; a vague average.
  • mathematics Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
  • mathematics Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as ''2'' and ''3'' in ''1:2=3:6''.
  • in singular An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
  • statistics The average, the arithmetic mean.

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Verb:

  • To convey meaning.
  • To intend.

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