| avoirdupois weight |
avoirdupois: a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains)
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| avulsion |
an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another
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| availability |
handiness: the quality of being at hand when needed
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| avascular |
without blood vessels
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| average |
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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