The difference between Average and Medium

When used as nouns, average means the arithmetic mean, whereas medium means the chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.

When used as adjectives, average means constituting or relating to the average, whereas medium means arithmetically average.


Average is also verb with the meaning: to compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

Medium is also adverb with the meaning: to a medium extent.

check bellow for the other definitions of Average and Medium

  1. Average as a noun (mathematics):

    The arithmetic mean.

    Examples:

    "The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18."

  2. Average as a noun (statistics):

    Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

  3. Average as a noun (legal, marine):

    Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

  4. Average as a noun:

    Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

  5. Average as a noun:

    Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

  6. Average as a noun (sports):

    An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

    Examples:

    "batting average'"

  7. Average as a noun (UK, in the plural):

    In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

  1. Average as an adjective (not comparable):

    Constituting or relating to the average.

    Examples:

    "The average age of the participants was 18.5."

  2. Average as an adjective:

    Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

    Examples:

    "I soon found I was only an average chess player."

  3. Average as an adjective:

    Typical.

    Examples:

    "The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product."

  4. Average as an adjective (informal):

    Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

  1. Average as a verb (transitive):

    To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

    Examples:

    "If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18."

  2. Average as a verb (transitive):

    Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

    Examples:

    "The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C."

    "I averaged 75% in my examinations this year."

  3. Average as a verb (transitive):

    To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

    Examples:

    "to average a loss"

  4. Average as a verb (intransitive):

    To be, generally or on average.

  1. Average as a noun (UK, legal, obsolete):

    The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

  1. Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums'''):

    The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.

  2. Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums'''):

    The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.

  3. Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums'''):

    A format for communicating or presenting information.

  4. Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums''', engineering):

    The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.

  5. Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums''', microbiology):

    A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.

  6. Medium as a noun (plural '''media''' or '''mediums'''):

    The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.

  7. Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums''' or '''media'''):

    A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.

  8. Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums''' or '''media''', painting):

    A tool used for painting or drawing.

    Examples:

    "Acrylics, oils, charcoal, and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting."

  9. Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums''', spiritualism):

    Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.

  10. Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums'''):

    Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.

  11. Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums'''):

    A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.

  12. Medium as a noun (plural '''mediums''', Ireland, dated, informal):

    A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).

  13. Medium as a noun:

    A middle place or degree.

    Examples:

    "a happy medium"

  14. Medium as a noun (dated):

    An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.

  15. Medium as a noun (logic):

    The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.

  1. Medium as an adjective (obsolete):

    Arithmetically average.

  2. Medium as an adjective:

    Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.

  3. Medium as an adjective:

    Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.

  1. Medium as an adverb:

    to a medium extent