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averaging out

averaging out is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about averaging out

What is averaging out the present participle and gerund of?
Averaging out is the present participle and gerund of average out.

Words near averaging out in the dictionary

  1. averages out
  2. averages up
  3. averagest
  4. averaging
  5. averaging down
  6. averaging out
  7. averaging up
  8. averagings
  9. averah
  10. Averas
  11. averbal

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