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averages out

averages out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of average out.

Meaning of average out

Verb

average out (third-person singular simple present averages out, present participle averaging out, simple past and past participle averaged out)

  1. (intransitive) To acquire a specified average value as more instances occur.
    • Between 1854 (and the addition of in-patient facilities) and 1870 the mortality rates in the Wakefield Infirmary averaged out to 9.94 per cent for in-patients and 3.18 per cent for out-patients.1987, Hilary Marland, Medicine and society in Wakefield and Huddersfield, 1780-1870

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What is averages out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Averages out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of average out.

Words near averages out in the dictionary

  1. averageness
  2. averager
  3. averagers
  4. averages
  5. averages down
  6. averages out
  7. averages up
  8. averagest
  9. averaging
  10. averaging down
  11. averaging out

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