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approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers" modal(a): relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C" a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" compute the average of median(a): relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"
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| Averroes |
Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198)
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| aversion |
antipathy: a feeling of intense dislike the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting her gaze meant that she was angry"
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| aversive |
tending to repel or dissuade; "aversive conditioning"
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| aversion therapy |
any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success)
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