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Definition: AVERAGING |
AVERAGINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Average |
Date "AVERAGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | The practice of investing a fixed amount of money in a particular security, regardless of price. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Increasing one's holding in an investment when it falls in the hope of reducing the impact of the short-term fluctuations. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| AVE | English | Averaging enhancement | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: AVERAGING |
| English words defined with "AVERAGING": cardinal, carmine, coral ♦ Great Wall, Great Wall of China. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AVERAGING": carat-goods, cortical audiometry ♦ eclipse year, evoked response audiometry ♦ GAC, goldamalgam ♦ MEASUREMENT MODE DUTY CYCLE ♦ nastistical, navy-blue ♦ phantom horizon, Program yield ♦ quadratic mean ♦ southern oscillation, Sunspot cycle ♦ trimmed mean, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission ♦ Wooddell scale. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A small dairy farm in western Maryland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines "small farms" as those averaging $50,000 in gross sales annually—which net, on average, around $23,159. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, the mortality rate from bleeding ulcers has remained largely unchanged, averaging between 6 and 10 percent over the past 30 years. (references) | |
During a bladder instillation, also called a bladder wash or bath, the bladder is filled with a solution that is held for varying periods of time, averaging 10 to 15 minutes, before being emptied. (references) | ||
Business | The U.S. market share for imported agricultural equipment has been averaging about 75 percent over the past three years. (references) | |
More than a $1 billion worth of pharmaceuticals is sold in South Africa annually and the market has been averaging a healthy 4.8 percent growth rate over the past few years. (references) | ||
Tourist arrivals, averaging 10 million per year, after a short decline last summer are expected to recover, so the construction of new additional hotels will be required within three to four years. (references) | ||
Economic History | Brunei Darussalam | Petroleum production is currently averaging 200,000 barrels per day. (references) |
Burma | CDMA phones were introduced in 1996, at the cost averaging $1500 per phone. (references) | |
Peru | Spending on Peruvian advertising is averaging U.S. $ 200 million a year in publicity. (references) | |
Human Rights | Panama | Public defenders' caseloads remained extremely high, averaging some 550 cases per attorney per year. (references) |
Russia | For example, on December 11, the Stavropol Territorial Court sentenced five persons from the northern Caucasus to prison terms averaging from 9 to 15 years for their involvement in two September 1999 Moscow apartment bombings. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | In 1998, the last year for which estimates are available, they returned at least 15 groups averaging 100 Warao each. (references) |
Political Economy | OMAN | In 2000, Oman produced 350 million BBL averaging around 955 thousand barrels per day, a production level that has fallen somewhat in recent months. (references) |
Malaysia | Following nearly a decade of strong economic growth averaging over 8 percent annually, it was hit hard by the 1997 regional financial and economic crisis. (references) | |
BOLIVIA | The money supply (M1) has grown steadily since 1991, with M1 now averaging around 12 percent of GDP. Total liquidity (M4) represented approximately 53 percent of GDP in 2000. (references) | |
Trade | Guinea | Commercial interest rates are very high, averaging 25-30%. Commercial loans, thus, are scarce and expensive. (references) |
Travel | Slovak Rep | Food prices in restaurants are generally not expensive, averaging about $3-12 per meal. (references) |
Worker Rights | Belgium | Approximately 100 cases resulted in convictions, with sentences averaging from 2 to 6 years' imprisonment and fines of $2,200 to $10,000 (100,000 to 450,000 Belgian francs). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AVERAGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.15% of the time. "AVERAGING" is used about 226 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 91.15% | 206 | 21,208 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.87% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.54% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 226 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "AVERAGING": averaging time ♦ dollar cost averaging. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "AVERAGING": density-averaging, signal-averaging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "AVERAGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 平均 (Average, Averaged, Equilibrate, Equilibrated, Equilibrating). (various references) | |
Danish | averaging, udjævning af en position (dollar cost averaging), midling (average determination, determination of average). (various references) | |
Dutch | averaging (dollar cost averaging), marktmaker. (various references) | |
French | amélioration des prix moyens d'un titre, amélioration des prix moyens, processus de moyennes (average determination, determination of average), prise de moyenne (average determination, determination of average), moyenner une position (dollar cost averaging), formation de moyennes (average determination, determination of average), établissement d'une moyenne. (various references) | |
German | Mittelwertbildung (average determination, determination of average). (various references) | |
Greek | καθορισμός μέσης τιμής, προσδιορισμός της μέσης τιμής (average determination, determination of average), αυξομείωση θέσεως (dollar cost averaging). (various references) | |
Hungarian | közepelés, átlagolás. (various references) | |
Italian | averaging, operatore che quota un prezzo di acquisto e di vendita, Determinazione della media (average determination, determination of average), copertura di borsa (dollar cost averaging). (various references) | |
Korean | 평 (Average, mean). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | averagingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | market maker, investimento pelo preço médio (dollar cost averaging), estabelecimento de uma média, determinação de médias (average determination, determination of average). (various references) | |
Russian | усреднять усреднение усредняющий. (various references) | |
Spanish | agiotista (jobber, profiteer, stockjobber), promediación (average determination, determination of average), mediar una posición (dollar cost averaging), establecimiento de una media, determinación del promedio (average determination, determination of average), creador de mercado. (various references) | |
Swedish | utjämna anskaffningskurs (dollar cost averaging), snittning (dollar cost averaging), snitta (dollar cost averaging). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"AVERAGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Averulino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AVERAGING" (pronounced a"vrijing) |
| 6 | -v r i j i ng | leveraging. |
| 5 | -r i j i ng | disparaging, foraging. |
| 4 | -i j i ng | acknowledging, damaging, encouraging, hemorrhaging, imaging, messaging, micromanaging, mismanaging, mortgaging, packaging, pillaging, presaging, ravaging, repackaging, rummaging, salvaging, savaging. |
| 3 | -j i ng | arbitraging, aging, alleging, arranging, avenging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, converging, cringing, discharging, discouraging, disengaging, dislodging, diverging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, emerging, engaging, enlarging, enraging, exchanging, fledging, forging, fudging, gauging, gouging, grudging, hedging, indulging, infringing, judging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, merging, mischarging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, paging, pledging, plunging, purging, raging, rampaging, ranging, rearranging, recharging, resurging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, splurging, staging, surging, trudging, unchanging, urging, verging, waging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-g-i-n-r-v" | |
-1 letter: ravaging. | |
-2 letters: anergia, gearing, graving, naggier, reaving, vaginae, verging, vinegar. | |
-3 letters: ageing, earing, gaeing, gainer, ganger, garage, gavage, ginger, grange, graven, nagger, naiver, raging, ravage, ravine, raving, reagin, regain, regina, rivage, vagina, vainer. | |
-4 letters: again, agave, agger, aggie, aging, agria, aiver, anear, anger, arena, avian, eggar, gager, ganev, garni, given, giver, grain, grana, grave. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-g-i-n-r-v" | |
+2 letters: variegating. | |
+3 letters: overmanaging. | |
+4 letters: extravagating, overarranging, overpackaging. | |
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