The difference between Average and Standard

When used as nouns, average means the arithmetic mean, whereas standard means a principle or example or measure used for comparison. a level of quality or attainment. something used as a measure for comparative evaluations.

When used as adjectives, average means constituting or relating to the average, whereas standard means falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Average and Standard

  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. Standard as an adjective:

    Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

  2. Standard as an adjective (of a tree or shrub):

    Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.

  3. Standard as an adjective:

    Having recognized excellence or authority.

    Examples:

    "standard works in history; standard authors"

  4. Standard as an adjective:

    Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.

  5. Standard as an adjective (not comparable, of a motor vehicle):

    Having a manual transmission.

  6. Standard as an adjective:

    As normally supplied (not optional).

  7. Standard as an adjective (linguistics):

    Conforming to the standard variety.

  1. Standard as a noun (India):

    A principle or example or measure used for comparison. A level of quality or attainment. Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model. A musical work of established popularity. A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government. The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage. A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid. Grade level in primary education.

    Examples:

    "I am in fifth standard."

  2. Standard as a noun:

    A vertical pole with something at its apex. An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard. The flag or ensign carried by a military unit. One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite. Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold. A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. The sheth of a plough.

  3. Standard as a noun:

    A manual transmission vehicle.

  4. Standard as a noun (botany):

    The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

  5. Standard as a noun (shipbuilding):

    An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

  6. Standard as a noun:

    A large drinking cup.

  7. Standard as a noun (sociolinguistics):

    standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language

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