BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Mean
- a central value or location for a continuous variable in a statistical study
Wiktionary Definition for: Mean
- transitive To convey, signify, or indicate.
- Ex:''What does this hieroglyph '''mean'''?''
- Ex:''The sky is red this morning—does that '''mean''' we're in for a storm?''
- transitive To want or intend to convey.
- Ex:''I'm afraid I don't understand what you '''mean'''.''
- Ex:''Say what you '''mean''' and mean what you say.''
- transitive To intend; to plan on doing.
- Ex:''I didn't '''mean''' to knock your tooth out.''
- Ex:''I mean to go to Baddeck this summer.''
- Ex:''I meant to take the car in for a smog check, but it slipped my mind.''
- transitive To have conviction in what one says.
- Ex:''Does she really '''mean''' what she said to him last night?''
- Ex:''Say what you mean and '''mean''' what you say.''
- transitive To have intentions of a some kind.
- Ex:''Don't be angry; she '''meant''' well.''
- Ex:''Someone's coming up. He '''means''' business.''
- transitive To result in; to bring about.
- Ex:''One faltering step '''means''' certain death.''
- Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
- Ex:''Watch out for her, she's '''mean'''. I said good morning to her, and she punched me in the nose.''
- #Miserly; stingy.
- Ex:''He's so '''mean'''. I've never seen him spend so much as five pounds on presents for his children.
- Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
- Ex:''It was '''mean''' to steal the girl's piggy bank, but he just ''had'' to get uptown and he had no cash of his own.''
- Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
- Ex:''It must have been a '''mean''' typhoon that levelled this town.''
- Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
- Ex:''Your mother can roll a '''mean''' cigarette.''
- Ex:''He hits a '''mean''' backhand''.
- Low in quality; inferior.
- #Having the mean (''see noun below'') as its value.
- Ex:''mean distance''
- Ex:''mean time''
- Ex:''mean solar time''
- Ex:''mean sun''
- # statistics Variously: arithmetic mean, geometric mean, population mean,
- Commonly, an intermediate value.
Additional Resources
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- Research articles 1999-09-14
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- Research articles 2005-03-02
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- Research articles 1999-02-11
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- White papers 2003-01-01
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- White papers 2000-05-01
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- Research articles 2004-05-01
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- Research articles 1998-11-01
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- Articles 2009-05-05
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- Articles 2009-05-15
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- Research articles 2005-08-01
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- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Research articles 2001-04-23
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