On an average

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taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities.

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average
average out
averageness
batting average

General average
mean
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A plant which annually produces a thousand seeds, of which on an average only one comes to maturity, may be more truly said to struggle with the plants of the same and other kinds which already clothe the ground.

The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context

The supply of food, on an average, remains constant, yet the tendency in every animal to increase by propagation is geometrical; and its surprising effects have nowhere been more astonishingly shown, than in the case of the European animals run wild during the last few centuries in America.

The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context

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