average

• n. 平均; 海の損失
• adj.平均；一般的な
• vt.平均を計算する；...を均等に分ける；...のバランスをとる
• vi. 平均化する；中間色にする

アラビア語から、商品の海での損失を指し、古代では保険機関が存在しない、平均への単語の後に、損失を共有するために彼らの商品の価値に応じて商品の所有者は、保険業界の用語の一般的な平均、一般的な海の損失の元の意味。

average

average: [15] The word average has a devious history. It began in Arabic, as ‘awārīya, the plural of ‘awār, a noun derived from the verb ‘āra ‘mutilate’; this was used as a commercial term, denoting ‘damaged merchandise’. The first European language to adopt it was Italian, as avaria, and it passed via Old French avarie into English (where in the 16th century it acquired its -age ending, probably by association with the then semantically similar damage).

Already by this time it had come to signify the ‘financial loss incurred through damage to goods in transit’, and this passed in the 17th century to the ‘equal sharing of such loss by those with a financial interest in the goods’, and eventually, in the 18th century, to the current (mathematical and general) sense of ‘mean’.

average (n.)

late 15c., "financial loss incurred through damage to goods in transit," from French avarie "damage to ship," and Italian avaria; a word from 12c. Mediterranean maritime trade (compare Spanish averia; other Germanic forms, Dutch avarij, German haferei, etc., also are from Romanic languages), which is of uncertain origin. Sometimes traced to Arabic 'arwariya "damaged merchandise." Meaning shifted to "equal sharing of such loss by the interested parties." Transferred sense of "statement of a medial estimate" is first recorded 1735. The mathematical extension is from 1755.

average (adj.)

1770; see average (n.).

average (v.)

1769, from average (n.). Related: Averaged; averaging.

1. The average commuter journey there is five hours long.

そこの通勤族は平均通勤に5時間かかる。

2.In 1970 the average size of a French farm was 19 hectares.

1970年、フランスの農場の平均規模は19ヘクタールだった。

3.Its profits are rising four times faster than the average company.

利益の成長速度は一般企業より4倍速い。

4.The train 's average speed was no better than that of our bicycles.

列車の平均速度は私たちの自転車に乗る速度よりあまり速くありません。

5.My fish average 2 lb 8 oz and I 've had two eight-pounders.

私の魚は1匹平均2ポンド8オンス、そして2匹の重さ8ポンドのものがあります。