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ON AVERAGE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Typically
Example:
on average he watches three movies a week
Synonyms:
on average; on the average
Classified under:
Context examples:
SNPs occur, on average, once every 1000 bases and can be used in gene mapping and linkage analysis.
(Intergenic SNP, NCI Thesaurus)
People with two copies of these particular variants (1 in over 1,000 people) were on average 2.5 kg lighter than people without the variants and had a 50% lower risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
(Discovery of genetic variants that protect against obesity and type 2 diabetes could lead to new weight loss medicines, University of Cambridge)
It has on average only around 0.6% of the pressure of Earth's atmosphere, and this is mainly carbon dioxide; only 0.145% of the thin Martian atmosphere is oxygen.
(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)
Items from restaurants with in-store menu labelling had on average 45% less fat and 60% less salt than items from other restaurants.
(Menu labelling linked to less fat and salt in food, University of Cambridge)
“To put this in perspective, as a result of this increase, the risk of heart attack due to NSAIDs is on average about one percent annually,” researchers wrote.
(Common Painkillers Linked to Increased Risk for Heart Attack, VOA)
After two years, participants in the experimental group had reduced their daily caloric intake by 12% and maintained, on average, a 10% loss in body weight.
(Moderate calorie restriction in young and middle-aged adults significantly reduces heart and metabolic risk factors independent of weight loss, National Institutes of Health)
In one study, on average, about 3.68% of letters used in English tend to be "a"s, while the number is 6.22% in Spanish and 3.95% in French.
(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
These androgens are produced in higher quantities in male than in female foetuses on average, so might also explain why autism occurs more often in boys.
(High levels of oestrogen in the womb linked to autism, University of Cambridge)
Second, the new study confirmed that women are on average more empathetic than men.
(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)
In contrast to the newly discovered properties of the high-energy neutrinos, about 100 trillion neutrinos with lower energies pass through the human body, on average, every second without being absorbed.
(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)
