"average out" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: averages out [present, singular, third-person], averaging out [participle, present], averaged out [participle, past], averaged out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} average out (third-person singular simple present averages out, present participle averaging out, simple past and past participle averaged out)
  1. (intransitive) To acquire a specified average value as more instances occur. Tags: intransitive

Inflected forms

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    {
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          "ref": "1987, Hilary Marland, Medicine and society in Wakefield and Huddersfield, 1780-1870:",
          "text": "Between 1854 (and the addition of in-patient facilities) and 1870 the mortality rates in the Wakefield Infirmary averaged out to 9.94 per cent for in-patients and 3.18 per cent for out-patients.",
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        "(intransitive) To acquire a specified average value as more instances occur."
      ],
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  "word": "average out"
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        "(intransitive) To acquire a specified average value as more instances occur."
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