average weight

collocation in English

meaningsofaverageandweight

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average
adjective
uk
/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/
us
/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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weight
noun
uk
/weɪt/
us
/weɪt/
the amount that something or ...
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(Definition ofaverageandweightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theaverageweightwas 8.6 + 0.3 mg and the seed moisture content was 6.03 + 0.05%.
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Theaverageweightbefore starting the trial was 264 kg (range 237-290 kg).
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Theaverageweightof a square metre of dense grass was 1,191 grammes, while 60 per cent, of the soil at the base of the plants was covered.
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Almost all farmers reported estimating live weights for calculating anthelmintic doses through visual perception on the basis of anaverageweight(96%).
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However, the covariate was not significant, indicating that theaverageweightof individual flies was not altered within this density range.
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Anaverageweightof 5 g in each 15 x 15-cm bag was used for all the sites.
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First, the paper describes stereo vision systems that provide automatically fish weight estimations (including fishaverageweightand weight histogram) in tanks and in sea cages.
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A covariance analysis onaverageweightwas initially used to test whether population differences for weight depended on offspring number.
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Seed size range andaverageweightare 4-5 mm and 0.02 g respectively.
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They chiefly lived on sea elephants tongues, which onaverageweightabout three ton each, so you guess they have pretty big tongues.
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Horses had anaverageweightloss of 22.7 kg at 80 km, 90% represented by sweat losses23.
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In this group of eight patients, the average age was nine months (range 1-27 mos) and theaverageweightwas 7 kgs (range 4-13.5 kgs).
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The valence of each party derives from theaverageweight, given by members of the electorate, in judging the overall competence or 'quality' of the particular party leader.
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Almost all the farmers estimated live weights for calculating anthelmintic doses through visual perception on the basis of anaverageweightanimal.
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Sweat losses were estimated from 90% of theaverageweightloss of the horses at 80 km23.
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Obviously, faltering occurring in early infancy, and in those of well belowaverageweight, is likely to indicate the approach of clinical malnutrition.
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