Usually means: Average value of data set.
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  1. mean: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mean, mean, mean: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mean, mean, mean: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mean: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mean: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mean, mean: Wordnik
  7. mean: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. MEAN, mean: Wiktionary
  9. mean: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mean: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mean: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mean: Dictionary.com
  13. mean (adj.), mean (n.), mean (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mean: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. MEAN (software bundle), MEAN (solution stack), MEAN, Mean (Montrose album), Mean (Statistics), Mean (Taylor Swift song), Mean (album), Mean (average), Mean (disambiguation), Mean (song), Mean (statistics), Mean: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mean: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mean: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mean: Rhymezone
  19. mean: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mean: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mean: Free Dictionary
  22. mean: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mean: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. mean: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mean: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
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  2. mean: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
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  4. MEAN: Accounting Glossary
  5. Mean: bizterms.net
  6. Mean: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
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  8. Mean: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Mean: Investopedia
  11. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  12. Mean (mathematics), Mean (statistics), mean: Legal dictionary
  13. Mean (mathematics), Mean (statistics), mean: Financial dictionary
  14. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mean: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Mean (mathematics), Mean (statistics), mean: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
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  4. mean: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. Mean (mathematics), Mean (statistics), mean: Medical dictionary
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Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
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  4. MEAN: Acronym Finder
  5. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
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  7. mean: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Mean: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Mean: Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
  5. mean: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  6. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  7. mean, mean, mean, mean: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  8. Mean: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
  9. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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  1. mean, mean: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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  1. Mean: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To intend.
verb:  (transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.
verb:  (intransitive) To have as intentions of a given kind.
verb:  (transitive, usually in passive) To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine.
verb:  (transitive) To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.
verb:  To convey (a meaning).
verb:  (transitive) To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea).
verb:  (transitive) Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify.
verb:  (transitive) Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
verb:  (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
verb:  (transitive) To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
verb:  (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
verb:  (Ireland, UK regional) To lament.
adjective:  (obsolete) Common; general.
adjective:  (now rare) Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
adjective:  Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
adjective:  Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
adjective:  Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
adjective:  (chiefly UK) Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
adjective:  Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
adjective:  Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
adjective:  Powerful; fierce; strong.
adjective:  (colloquial) Hearty; spicy.
adjective:  (colloquial) Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
adjective:  (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
adjective:  Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.
adjective:  (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
noun:  (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
noun:  (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
noun:  Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
noun:  (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
noun:  (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean.
noun:  (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
noun:  (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
noun:  (web development) Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js: a software stack for developing web sites with both client-side and server-side use of JavaScript.

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