| mean life |
(Or mean lifetime, lifetime.) The average time during which anything can be said to reside within a specified region or to exist unchanged; for example, the mean life of a chemical species in the atmosphere, the mean life of a radioactive nucleus, the mean life of photons in a cloud. For processes following the same exponential law as radioactive decay, mean life is related simply to half-life.
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| mean |
The arithmetic average; the sum of the data divided by the sample size.
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| mean temperature |
The average temperature of a process.
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| mean |
A measure of central tendency, the arithmetic average; a statistic used primarily with interval-ratio variables following symmetrical distributions.
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| mean |
a statistical measurement of the central tendency, or average, of a set of values. Contrast with median.
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