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noun [S] (MATHEMATICS) /miːn/ (also the arithmetic mean) specializedDefinition
› (in mathematics) the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts: The mean of 5, 4, 10, and 15 is 8.5. → Compare average nounStatisticsAverages
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