How do you pronounce “average”?

Exams and grades · B1 · noun

How to pronounce

/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪd͡ʒ/

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“average” is pronounced A-ve-rage: 3 syllables, with the stress on “a”.

Noun: Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.“You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.”
Adjective: Constituting or relating to the average.“The average age of the participants was 18.5.”
Verb: To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.“If you average 10, 20, and 24, you get 18.”

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