- 1mean (between A and B) a quality, condition, or way of doing something that is in the middle of two extremes and better than either of them He needed to find a mean between frankness and rudeness.
average - 2(also arithmetic mean) (mathematics) the value found by adding together all the numbers in a group, and dividing the total by the number of numbers see geometric mean, median, mode Idioms
middle way
a course of action that is not extreme
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