mean

Pronunciation

• enPR: mēn
• IPA ^(key): /miːn/
• SAMPA: /mi:n/

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Verb

Plain form mean

Third-person singular means

Past tense meant

Past participle meant

Present participle meaning

1. (transitive) A word means something when the word expresses the same idea as the other something.

   Slay means kill. Both of them mean to make dead.

Adjective

Positive mean

Comparative meaner

Superlative meanest

1. When you are a mean person, you are not nice.

   The boys who hit you were very mean.

Noun

Singular mean

Plural means

1. The mean is a measure of the average of a list of numbers. The sum total of the numbers divided by how many numbers in the list.

   The mean of the numbers 2,3,4 is 3. (2+3+4)/3 = 9/3 = 3.

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