…the value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average…
…have good intentions, but not always the ability to carry them out…
…an imaginary sun conceived as moving through the sky throughout the year at a constant speed equal to the mean rate of the real sun, used in calculating solar time…
…used in reference to a socially deprived area of a city, or one which is noted for violence and crime…
…the angle in an imaginary circular orbit corresponding to a planet’s eccentric anomaly…
…the average of a set of numerical values, as calculated by adding them together and dividing by the number of terms in the set…
…the central number in a geometric progression (e.g. 9 in 3, 9, 27), also calculable as the nth root of a product of n numbers…
…used to emphasize a statement or to ask another if they really intend to say something…
…the average distance travelled by a gas molecule or other particle between collisions with other particles…
…the sea level halfway between the mean levels of high and low water…
…the time between successive passages of the mean sun across the meridian…
…time as calculated by the motion of the mean sun (such as is shown by an ordinary clock)…
…the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of a set of values…
…the mean solar time at the Greenwich meridian, adopted as the standard time in a zone that includes the British Isles…
…be of a specified degree of importance to (someone)…
…have something as a motive or explanation in saying or doing…
