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    mean
    [mēn]
    verb
    mean (verb) · means (third person present) · meant (past tense) · meant (past participle) · meaning (present participle)
    1. intend to convey, indicate, or refer to (a particular thing or notion); signify:
      "I don't know what you mean" · "he was asked to clarify what his remarks meant" · "I meant you, not Jones"
      • (of a word) have (something) as its signification in the same language or its equivalent in another language:
        "its name means “painted rock” in Cherokee"
      • genuinely intend to convey or express (something):
        "when she said that before, she meant it"
      • (mean something to)
        be of some specified importance to (someone), especially as a source of benefit or object of affection:
        "animals have always meant more to him than people"
    2. intend (something) to occur or be the case:
      "they mean no harm" · "it was meant to be a secret"
    3. have as a consequence or result:
      "the proposals are likely to mean another hundred closures" · "heavy rain meant that the ground was waterlogged"
      • necessarily or usually entail or involve:
        "coal stoves mean a lot of smoke"
    Origin
    Old English mænan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch meenen and German meinen, from an Indo-European root shared by mind.
    mean
    [mēn]
    adjective
    mean (adjective) · meaner (comparative adjective) · meanest (superlative adjective)
    1. BRITISH ENGLISH
      unwilling to give or share things, especially money; not generous:
      "she felt mean not giving a tip" · "they're not mean with the garlic"
      • NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
        vicious or aggressive in behavior:
        "the dogs were considered mean"
    Origin
    Old English mæne, shortening of gemǣne, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin communis ‘common’. The original sense was ‘common to two or more people’, later ‘inferior in rank’, leading to mean and a sense ‘ignoble, small-minded’, from which mean and mean (which became common in the 19th century) arose.
    mean
    [mēn]
    noun
    mean (noun) · means (plural noun)
    1. the value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average. See also arithmetic mean, geometric mean.
      "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"
    adjective
    mean (adjective)
    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"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French meien, from Latin medianus ‘middle’ (see median).
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    mean a lot, nothing, something, etc. to It wasn't a valuable picture but it meant a lot to me. mean nothing to Possessions mean nothing to him. We use mean to explain or ask what a word or phrase refers to. We form questions with mean with the auxiliary verb do: … We use I mean very commonly in speaking as a discourse marker.
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    The meaning of MEAN is to have in the mind as a purpose : intend —sometimes used interjectionally with I, chiefly in informal speech for emphasis or to introduce a phrase restating the point of a preceding phrase. How to use mean in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Mean.
    Someone who is mean is not nice to other people. signify If you ask what something means, you want to understand it. What does this word mean? be serious about If you mean what you are saying, it is not a joke. He says he loves her, and I think he means it. intend If you mean to do something, it is not an accident. I didn't mean to drop the cup.
  3. A mean is a numeric quantity representing the center of a collection of numbers and is intermediate to the extreme values of a set of numbers.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean
    The mean (aka the arithmetic mean, different from the geometric mean) of a dataset is the sum of all values divided by the total number of values. It’s the most commonly used measure of central tendency and is often referred to as the “average.”
    www.scribbr.com/statistics/mean/
    Mean is the average of the given numbers and is calculated by dividing the sum of given numbers by the total number of numbers. Mean = (Sum of all the observations/Total number of observations)
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  9. Arithmetic mean

    In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, or simply the mean or average when the context is clear, is the sum of a collection of numbers divided by the number of numbers in the collection. The collection is often a set of results of an experiment, or a set of results from a survey.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean

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