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mean3/mi:n/ n. & adj.●n. 1 a condition, quality, virtue, or course of action equally removed from two opposite (usu. unsatisfactory) extremes (通常不满意两极端而采取的)中庸 2 Math. 【数】a the term or one of the terms midway between the first and last terms of an arithmetical or geometrical etc. progression (算术、几何等)中数;平均数,平均值 2 and 8 have the arithmetic mean 5 and the geometric mean 4 2 和 8 的算术平均数是 5 ,几何平均为 4 b the quotient of the sum of several quantities and their number; the average 中数;平均 ●adj. 1 (of a quantity) equally far from two extremes (数量)中间的 2 calculated as a mean 以中项计算的 [Middle English via Anglo-French meen and Old French meien, moien from Latin medianus MEDIAN] |