meanin a sentence
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We have a mean annual rainfall of 23 inches.
mean = average
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Mean income is distorted by a small number of people with very high income. I suggest looking at median income instead.
mean = an average of n numbers computed by dividing the sum of the numbers by n
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That is the mean; that is the average.
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mean = average
- The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. (source)
- The log indicated a mean speed of between eight and nine miles. (source)
- The mean breadth of this territory does not exceed one hundred miles; but it is about nine hundred miles in length. (source)
- It has been calculated that the whites advance every year a mean distance of seventeen miles along the whole of his vast boundary. (source)
- This would be a population proportionate to that of Europe, taken at a mean rate of 410 inhabitants to the square league. (source)
- One hundred millions of men disseminated over the surface of the twenty-four States, and the three dependencies, which constitute the Union, would only give 762 inhabitants to the square league; this would be far below the mean population of France, which is 1,063 to the square league; or of England, which is 1,457; (source)
- The mean distance from the Atlantic to the Mississippi does not probably exceed seven hundred and fifty miles. (source)
- Computing the distance between the thirty-first and forty-fifth degrees, it amounts to nine hundred and seventy-three common miles; computing it from thirty-one to forty-two degrees, to seven hundred and sixty-four miles and a half. Taking the mean for the distance, the amount will be eight hundred and sixty-eight miles and three-fourths. (source)
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What d'ya mean?
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mean = common meaning
- What do you mean, Mom? (source)
- We actually mean a lot.† (source)
- You mean after school?† (source)
- What did he mean when …† (source)
- But it does not mean that.† (source)
- I was so mean.† (source)
- I mean, who would I call?† (source)
- I mean, it was the tumor.† (source)
- "I didn't mean to yell.† (source)
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- "It couldn't mean that.† (source)
- What does that word mean?† (source)
- I mean, they did," I say.† (source)
- What do you mean?† (source)
- Do you mean it?† (source)
- What I mean by lucky is that I'm still alive and healthy ….† (source)
- An' I mean the on' one.† (source)
- What does it mean?† (source)
- I mean the bus.† (source)
- Do you know what I mean?† (source)
- I mean it could happen.† (source)
- Do you mean not just us?† (source)
- Which doesn't mean much.† (source)
- Do you mean is she crazy?† (source)
- You mean it, Uncle Hammer?† (source)
- That's just what I mean.† (source)
- Do you know what I mean?† (source)
- You did mean to upset me.† (source)
- Your real father, I mean.† (source)
- No, I mean it.† (source)
- I mean, I have.† (source)
- YOU KNOW HOW MEAN HE IS.† (source)
- You mean, those rumors—† (source)
- "What do you mean?" up.† (source)
- What do you mean by that?† (source)
- You do not mean a mortal?† (source)
- "Those drill instructors are mean," he said.† (source)
- What do you mean, hero?† (source)
- "That's not what I mean."† (source)
- They think they have their facts straight, but that doesn't mean they do.† (source)
- What does that even mean?† (source)
- What do you mean?† (source)
- But you know what I mean.† (source)
- His disappearance could mean only one thing.† (source)
- I don't mean it that way.† (source)
- I mean really.† (source)
- No, I mean.† (source)
- What do you mean, 'the others'?† (source)
- Those lines mean nothing.† (source)
- I mean, theywere friends.† (source)
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