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Mathematical technique
Mean shift is a non-parametric feature-space mathematical analysis technique for locating the maxima of a density function, a so-called mode-seeking algorithm
Mean_shift
Vector quantization algorithm minimizing the sum of squared deviations
A mean shift algorithm that is similar then to k-means, called likelihood mean shift, replaces the set of points undergoing replacement by the mean of
K-means_clustering
Concept in statistics
consistent estimator of M {\displaystyle M} . Note that one can use the mean shift algorithm to compute the estimator M c {\displaystyle M_{c}} numerically
Kernel_density_estimation
Grouping a set of objects by similarity
but mean-shift can detect arbitrary-shaped clusters similar to DBSCAN. Due to the expensive iterative procedure and density estimation, mean-shift is usually
Cluster_analysis
1984 romantic drama war film by Jonathan Demme
Swing Shift is a 1984 American romantic drama directed by Jonathan Demme, and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn, with Kurt Russell. It also features
Swing_Shift_(film)
Overview of and topical guide to machine learning
Fuzzy clustering Hierarchical clustering k-means clustering k-medians Mean-shift OPTICS algorithm Anomaly detection k-nearest neighbors algorithm (k-NN)
Outline_of_machine_learning
Method used to normalize the range of independent variables
distribution mean and standard deviation for each feature. Next we subtract the mean from each feature. Then we divide the values (mean is already subtracted)
Feature_scaling
Similarity measure for number sequences
product of two independent random unit vectors. This distribution has a mean of zero and a variance of 1 / n {\displaystyle 1/n} (where n {\displaystyle
Cosine_similarity
Metric of clustering solutions quality
solutions, particularly for density-based clustering algorithms like DBSCAN, Mean shift, and OPTICS. This metric is particularly suited for identifying concave
Density-based clustering validation
Density-based_clustering_validation
Tree-based ensemble machine learning methods
optimized using cross-validation, or by observing the out-of-bag error: the mean prediction error on each training sample xi, using only the trees that did
Random_forest
Type of activation function
units (2015) smoothly allow negative values. This is an attempt to make the mean activations closer to zero, which speeds up learning. It has been shown that
Rectified_linear_unit
Business process improvement technique
"original" mean of zero and the process mean is then shifted by 1.5 sigma (and therefore, the six sigma limits are no longer symmetrical about the mean). The
Six_Sigma
Metric used to measure signal quality
2011). "Modified image visual quality metrics for contrast change and mean shift accounting". 2011 11th International Conference the Experience of Designing
Peak_signal-to-noise_ratio
Algorithm for modelling sequential data
{\displaystyle \Delta t\in \mathbb {R} } is the distance one wishes to shift. This allows the transformer to take any encoded position, and find the
Transformer_(deep_learning)
Property of a model
y=f(x)+\varepsilon } , where the noise, ε {\displaystyle \varepsilon } , has zero mean and unit variance σ 2 {\displaystyle \sigma ^{2}} . That is, y i = f ( x
Bias–variance_tradeoff
Machine learning technique
keepdims=True) # Normalize the input tensor. x_hat = (x - mean) / np.sqrt(var + epsilon) # Scale and shift the normalized tensor. y = gamma * x_hat + beta return
Normalization (machine learning)
Normalization_(machine_learning)
Probability distribution
practice, the latter dependence is relatively unimportant: Shifting the actual mean shifts the generated points by an equal amount, and on average the
Normal_distribution
Machine learning technique
the form y ^ = F ( x ) {\displaystyle {\hat {y}}=F(x)} by minimizing the mean squared error 1 n ∑ i ( y ^ i − y i ) 2 {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{n}}\sum
Gradient_boosting
Machine learning paradigm
difference between the original input and the reconstructed output (e.g. mean squared error). By minimizing this reconstruction error, the autoencoder
Self-supervised_learning
Set of statistical processes for estimating the relationships among variables
towards a normal average (a phenomenon also known as regression toward the mean). For Galton, regression had only this biological meaning, but his work was
Regression_analysis
Square root of the mean square
In mathematics, the root mean square (abbrev. RMS, rms or rms) of a set of values is the square root of the set's mean square. Given a set x i {\displaystyle
Root_mean_square
Difficulties arising when analyzing data with many aspects ("dimensions")
/ d {\displaystyle r^{2}/d} is close to the normal distribution with the mean 1/3 and the standard deviation 2 / 45 d {\displaystyle 2/{\sqrt {45d}}} according
Curse_of_dimensionality
Concept in statistics
Estimation" (PDF). Retrieved 6 September 2018. Comaniciu, D; Meer, P (2002). "Mean shift: A robust approach toward feature space analysis". IEEE Transactions on
Kernel_(statistics)
Machine learning model training problem
the mean of the initial weights in deep neural networks using the logistic activation function and found that gradients do not vanish if the mean of the
Vanishing_gradient_problem
Paradigm in machine learning that uses no classification labels
vector, the first order moment is the mean vector, and the second order moment is the covariance matrix (when the mean is zero). Higher order moments are
Unsupervised_learning
Computational model used in machine learning
the products of the weights and the inputs is calculated at each node. The mean squared errors between these calculated outputs and the given target values
Neural network (machine learning)
Neural_network_(machine_learning)
Approach in data analysis
omission from the data to aid statistical analysis, for example to compute the mean or standard deviation. They were also removed to better predictions from
Anomaly_detection
Method of improving artificial neural network
the third model, the noise has non-zero mean and non-unit variance, i.e. it explicitly introduces covariate shift. Despite this, it showed similar accuracy
Batch_normalization
Alias for the UTC+00:00 time zone
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past
Greenwich_Mean_Time
Method of measuring prediction error
to create training samples for the model to learn from. OOB error is the mean prediction error on each training sample xi, using only the trees that did
Out-of-bag_error
filtering, shift detection, jump detection or edge detection) is the process of finding abrupt changes (steps, jumps, shifts) in the mean level of a time
Step_detection
Iterative simulation method
convex regularization of the objective function f {\displaystyle f} . Mean-shift algorithm: Employing polarized CBO for a constant objective function f
Consensus_based_optimization
Optimization algorithm
problem is very similar to the comparison between least mean squares (LMS) and normalized least mean squares filter (NLMS). Even though a closed-form solution
Stochastic_gradient_descent
Type of data encoding
Phase-shift keying (PSK) is a digital modulation process which conveys data by changing (modulating) the phase of a constant frequency carrier wave. The
Phase-shift_keying
Type of feedforward neural network
brain–computer interfaces, and financial time series. CNNs are also known as shift invariant or space invariant artificial neural networks, based on the shared-weight
Convolutional_neural_network
Method of data analysis
data matrix, X, with column-wise zero empirical mean (the sample mean of each column has been shifted to zero), where each of the n rows represents a
Principal_component_analysis
Class of artificial neural network
model to obtain a learning signal, since the model would mostly learn to shift y ^ 2 {\displaystyle {\hat {y}}_{2}} towards y 2 {\displaystyle y_{2}}
Recurrent_neural_network
Data clustering algorithm
measures between clusters ( d m i n , d m e a n {\displaystyle d_{min},d_{mean}} ) tend to work with different cluster shapes. Also the running time is
CURE_algorithm
Automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data
collected data. For the linear discriminant, these parameters are precisely the mean vectors and the covariance matrix. Also the probability of each class p (
Pattern_recognition
Plot of machine learning model performance over time or experience
how good the model output is (e.g., accuracy for classification tasks or mean squared error for regression). We then define an optimization process which
Learning curve (machine learning)
Learning_curve_(machine_learning)
Fundamental change in ideas and practices within a scientific discipline
A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. It is a concept in the philosophy
Paradigm_shift
Unlike Rosenblatt's perceptron, ADALINE adjusted weights based on their least mean squares (LMS) algorithm before applying the threshold function. MADALINE
History of artificial neural networks
History_of_artificial_neural_networks
Calculation of elapsed time by the apparent position of the sun
time reckoning based on astronomical observations: apparent solar time and mean solar time (discussed in this article), and sidereal time, which is based
Solar_time
In mathematics, the mean (topological) dimension of a topological dynamical system is a non-negative extended real number that is a measure of the complexity
Mean_dimension
Signal processing computational method
negentropy. Typical algorithms for ICA use centering (subtract the mean to create a zero mean signal), whitening (usually with the eigenvalue decomposition)
Independent component analysis
Independent_component_analysis
Algorithm that estimates unknowns from a series of measurements over time
"Non-linear DSGE Models, The Central Difference Kalman Filter, and The Mean Shifted Particle Filter". Roweis, S; Ghahramani, Z (1999). "A unifying review
Kalman_filter
Locating a moving object by analyzing frames of a video
target representation and localization algorithms: Kernel-based tracking (mean-shift tracking): an iterative localization procedure based on the maximization
Video_tracking
Set of learning techniques in machine learning
data matrix is the kth input data vector shifted by the sample mean of the input (i.e., subtracting the sample mean from the data vector). Equivalently, these
Feature_learning
Method in image processing of contrast adjustment using the image's histogram
modify the algorithm to improve the contrast without producing brightness mean-shift and detail loss artifacts. A signal transform equivalent to histogram
Histogram_equalization
arteries). An increase in mean systemic pressure is reflected in a shift of the vascular function curve to the right. Mean systemic pressure is decreased
Mean_systemic_pressure
Algorithm used for points in euclidean space
different method for generating evenly spaced points in geometric spaces Mean shift, a related method for finding maxima of a density function K-means++ Lloyd
Lloyd's_algorithm
Claim of past rapid changes of the Earth's axis
The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis is a pseudoscientific claim that there have been recent, geologically rapid shifts in the axis of rotation of Earth
Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis
Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypothesis
Type of clustering of data points
kth cluster wk(x). With fuzzy c-means, the centroid of a cluster is the mean of all points, weighted by their degree of belonging to the cluster, or,
Fuzzy_clustering
Inverse of the average of the inverses of a set of numbers
only. The harmonic mean is the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers, that is, the generalized f-mean with f ( x ) = 1 x
Harmonic_mean
Class of statistical modeling methods
approximate solutions. These include: Loopy belief propagation Alpha expansion Mean field inference Linear programming relaxations Learning the parameters θ
Conditional_random_field
Subfield of machine learning
Meta Networks (MetaNet) learns a meta-level knowledge across tasks and shifts its inductive biases via fast parameterization for rapid generalization
Meta-learning (computer science)
Meta-learning_(computer_science)
Clustering using tree-based data aggregation
sum and the sum of squares, we can instead store the mean and the squared deviation from the mean in each cluster feature C F ′ = ( N , μ , S ) {\displaystyle
BIRCH
shift is intended to provide more sunlight in the evening. Until the advent of the railways, the United Kingdom used local mean time. Greenwich Mean Time
Time_in_the_United_Kingdom
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for contributions to mean-shift and robust techniques in computer vision. "2012 elevated fellow" (PDF)
Peter_Meer
Regular and periodic mutual gravitational influence of orbiting bodies
in mean-motion resonances. In all three satellite systems, moons were likely captured into mean-motion resonances in the past as their orbits shifted due
Orbital_resonance
Statistical method
def square_error_loss(y_true, y_pred): return (y_true - y_pred) ** 2 def mean_square_error(y_true, y_pred): return np.sum(square_error_loss(y_true, y_pred))
Random_sample_consensus
Optimization algorithm
algorithm; random optimization. Gradient descent Greedy algorithm Tâtonnement Mean-shift A* search algorithm Russell, Stuart J.; Norvig, Peter (2003), Artificial
Hill_climbing
Statistical method
{\displaystyle m} th individual, μ i {\displaystyle \mu _{i}} is the observation mean for the i {\displaystyle i} th observation, l i , j {\displaystyle l_{i,j}}
Factor_analysis
Polynesian massage method
the strokes mimic the ocean waves. It may also mean "to take and turn, to shift" as in "the sacred shift within you that is inspired by the healing kahuna
Lomilomi_massage
Topics referred to by the same term
Shift resistor may mean: CMOS digital level shifter Pull-up resistor This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shift resistor.
Shift_resistor
Romanian-American computer scientist
National Academy of Engineering 2025 Comaniciu, D.; Meer, P. (2002). "Mean shift: A robust approach toward feature space analysis". IEEE Transactions on
Dorin_Comaniciu
Data mining framework
including the extensions OPTICS-OF, DeLi-Clu, HiSC, HiCO and DiSH HDBSCAN Mean-shift clustering BIRCH clustering SUBCLU (Density-Connected Subspace Clustering
ELKI
Predictive mean matching (PMM) is a widely used statistical imputation method for missing values, first proposed by Donald B. Rubin in 1986 and R. J. A
Predictive_mean_matching
and Fredrik Kahl. SCIA2013 Best Paper Award: “Robust Scale-adaptive Mean-Shift for Tracking” by Tomas Vojir, Jana Noskova, and Jiri Matas. SCIA2013 Best
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
Scandinavian_Conference_on_Image_Analysis
Demographic statistic
called the mean center of population. After moving roughly 600 miles (966 km) west by south during the 19th century, the shift in the mean center of population
Mean center of the United States population
Mean_center_of_the_United_States_population
American comedy series (2025–2026)
2026). "Watson & DMV Canceled By CBS, Series Finales Set; What Does That Mean For Net's Comedy Pilots?". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 27, 2026.
DMV_(TV_series)
N-th root of the arithmetic mean of the given numbers raised to the power n
In mathematics, generalized means (or power mean or Hölder mean from Otto Hölder) are a family of functions for aggregating sets of numbers. These include
Generalized_mean
Adoption of a Turkic culture by a non-Turkic population
Turkification, Turkization, or Turkicization (Turkish: Türkleştirme) describes a shift whereby populations or places receive or adopt Turkic attributes such as
Turkification
2023 single by Gunna
"UMean" or "F**UMean") (stylized in lowercase letters and pronounced "fuck you mean") is a song by American rapper Gunna. It was sent to rhythmic contemporary
FukUMean
Composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices
Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering
Human_Development_Index
American computer scientist
with papers on image and video segmentation based on anisotropic kernel mean-shift (2004); video cutout (2004), which preserved smoothness across space and
Michael_F._Cohen
Partitioning a digital image into segments
solution depends on the initial set of clusters and the value of K. The Mean Shift algorithm is a technique that is used to partition an image into an unknown
Image_segmentation
Probability distribution
shifted because they are already centered on the mean) by the range (c − a), linearly for the mean deviation and nonlinearly for the variance: (mean deviation
Beta_distribution
Important algorithms in numerical statistics
framework as the above "shifted data" algorithm: class WelfordVariance: def __init__(self): # Comparison to ShiftDataVariance: self.mean = 0.0 # = K + Ex /
Algorithms for calculating variance
Algorithms_for_calculating_variance
Primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time
widely embraced by most countries and is the effective successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in everyday usage and common applications. In specialised domains
Coordinated_Universal_Time
Perceiving the world to be more dangerous than it really is
Mean world syndrome is a proposed cognitive bias wherein people may perceive the world to be more dangerous than it is. This is due to long-term moderate
Mean_world_syndrome
seven hours ahead of UTC. The local mean time in Bangkok was originally UTC+06:42:04. Thailand used this local mean time until 1920, when it changed to
Time_in_Thailand
form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and
List_of_emoticons
Aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units
laptops. A 2008 report by DisplaySearch cited a number of reasons for this shift, including the ability for PC and monitor manufacturers to expand their
16:9_aspect_ratio
2026 studio album by Gogol Bordello
We Mean It, Man! is the ninth studio album by Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, released on February 13, 2026, via Casa Gogol Records, the label run by frontman
We_Mean_It,_Man!
Canadian actress (born 1978)
She rose to fame in 2004 with her portrayal of Regina George in the comedy Mean Girls and with the romantic drama The Notebook. In 2005, she starred in the
Rachel_McAdams
Third planet from the Sun
(ISS). Earth's rotation period relative to the Sun—its mean solar day—is 86,400 seconds of mean solar time (86,400.0025 SI seconds). Because Earth's solar
Earth
Shift in cultural norms
feminization is the shift in gender roles and sex roles in a society, group, or organization towards a focus upon the feminine. It can also mean the incorporation
Feminization_(sociology)
Israeli statistician
Hinkley, D., & Schechtman, E. (1987). Conditional bootstrap methods in the mean-shift model. Biometrika, 74(1), 85-93. Davison, A., Hinkley, D. V., & Schechtman
Edna_Schechtman
Insincere flattery, once meant a false accuser
'informer'), and Italian. In modern English, the meaning of the word has shifted to mean flattery. The origin of the Ancient Greek word συκοφάντης (sykophántēs)
Sycophancy
Observed phenomenon in United States politics
In American politics, a blue shift, also called a red mirage, is an observed phenomenon under which counts of in-person votes are more likely than overall
Blue_shift_(politics)
American football player and coach (born 1946)
Charles Edward Greene (September 24, 1946), better known as "Mean" Joe Greene, is an American former professional football defensive tackle who played
Joe_Greene
2025 Indian film by Rahul Sadasivan
and produced by Chakravarthy Ramachandra and S. Sashikanth under Night Shift Studios and YNOT Studios. It stars Pranav Mohanlal with Sushmita Bhat, Gibin
Diés_Iraé
Time zone
introduce a 30-minutes offset or seven and a half hour in advance of Greenwich mean time. The bill was read for the first time on 5 July 1920 but was later abandoned
Singapore_Time
Term referring to a homosexual person
apparently not until the 20th century that the word began to be used to mean specifically "homosexual", although it had earlier acquired sexual connotations
Gay
French mathematician (1903–1968)
mathematical analysis, in particular, for introducing mean-periodic functions and generalised shift operators. He was one of the founders of the Bourbaki
Jean_Delsarte
Internet slang word
exclamation, such as "gyatt damn". In the 2020s, the word experienced a semantic shift and gained the additional meaning of "a person, usually a woman, with large
Gyatt
Locally compact topological group with an invariant averaging operation
elements. The original definition, in terms of a finitely additive measure (or mean) on subsets of G, was introduced by John von Neumann in 1929 under the German
Amenable_group
Physical effect in general relativity
physics and general relativity, gravitational redshift (known as Einstein shift in older literature) is the phenomenon that electromagnetic waves or photons
Gravitational_redshift
General election held in Wales on 7 May 2026
under threat at the election, explaining that there is "an international shift going on at the moment and we've got several months now to make sure people
2026_Senedd_election
MEAN SHIFT
MEAN SHIFT
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu), or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of England named Dean, Deane, or Deen from this word. In Scotland this is a habitational name from Den in Aberdeenshire or Dean in Ayrshire.English : occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean. A dean was an ecclesiastical official who was the head of a chapter of canons in a cathedral. The Middle English word deen is a borrowing of Old French d(e)ien, from Latin decanus (originally a leader of ten men, from decem ‘ten’), and thus is a cognate of Deacon.Irish : variant of Deane.Italian : occupational name cognate with 2, from Venetian dean ‘dean’, a dialect form of degan, from degano (Italian decano).
Surname or Lastname
French
French : from the personal name Jean, French form of
John.English : variant of Jayne.A Vivien Jean, recorded in Canada in 1681, was also known as
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Seán, SEAN means "God is gracious."
Female
Hungarian
Hungarian feminine form of Latin Timæus, TÃMEA means "honor."
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : variant spelling of Keane.English : variant spelling of Keen.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of beans, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular). Occasionally it may have been applied as a nickname for a someone considered of little importance.English : nickname for a pleasant person, from Middle English bēne ‘friendly’, ‘amiable’ (of unknown origin; there is apparently no connection with Bain or Bon).Scottish : Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Beathán, a diminutive of beatha ‘life’.Translation of German Bohne, or an altered spelling of Biehn. See also Bihn.Mistranslation of French Lefevre. As the vocabulary word fèvre ‘smith’ was replaced by forgeron, the meaning of the old word became opaque, and the surname was reinterpreted as if it were La fève, from fève ‘(fava) bean’. Lefevre is the most common name in French Canada; great numbers of them migrated to the US, where many adopted the name Bean, in the belief that it was a translation of Lefèvre. See also Lafave.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Cian, KEAN means "ancient, distant."
Boy/Male
Indian
Religion
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Devon)
English (chiefly Devon) : nickname for a thin or lean person, from Middle English lene ‘lean’ (Old English hlǣne).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin (see Lehane).Reduced form of Scottish McLean.
Female
English
Scottish form of French Jeanne, JEAN means "God is gracious." Compare with masculine Jean.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Pearl
Male
English
 English occupational surname transferred to forename use, from the Latin word decanus, DEAN means "dean; ecclesiastical supervisor."
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lecturer, Respect, Supernatural power, Lord of mind
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : shortened form of McMeans.English : habitational names from East and West Meon in Hampshire, which take their names from the Meon river. The word is Celtic but of uncertain meaning, possibly ‘swift one’.nickname from Middle English mene ‘inferior in rank’, ‘of low degree’ (from Old English gemǣne), or from Middle English mene ‘moderate in behaviour’ (from Old French mëen, mean).
Girl/Female
Hindu
Precious blue stone, Fish, Jewel (Wife of the himalayas)
Male
French
A derivative of Anglo-Norman French Jehan, JEAN means "God is gracious." Compare with feminine Jean.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English mede ‘meadow’ (Old English mǣd).English : metonymic occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead (Old English meodu), an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Mease or Meece.Norwegian (Sør Trøndelag) : habitational name from a farmstead named Meås, from me ‘middle’ + ås ‘hill’, ‘ridge’.French (Méas) : habitational name from a locality so named in Nièvre.Cambodian : unexplained.
Female
English
Pet form of Welsh Mared, MEGAN means "pearl."Â
Male
Hebrew
Short form of Hebrew Immanuw'el (English Immanuel), MAN means "God is with us."
MEAN SHIFT
MEAN SHIFT
Boy/Male
Arabic
Live; Enjoy Life; Happy
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Bundock, a surname of unexplained origin, associated chiefly with Essex and Kent.
Boy/Male
Gaelic Scottish
Short.
Girl/Female
Indian
Flowering, Blooming, Flower
Male
German
Variant spelling of Old Middle High German Haimirich, HEIMERICH means "home-ruler."Â
Boy/Male
Tamil
The monkey God of ramayana (Son of the wind God; Devout of Rama and a leading warrior among monkey tribe)
Boy/Male
Indian
Guide
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Gift; Present; Favour; Benefit; Boon
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Art
Boy/Male
German Swedish Greek
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n.
Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
a.
Of a mean spirit; base; groveling.
imp. & p. p.
of Mean
v. i.
Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
n.
A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the square root of the product of the quantities.
superl.
Of poor quality; as, mean fare.
n.
Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
v. i.
To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
n.
pl. of Man.
v. t.
To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
v. t.
To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
v. i.
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
superl.
Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.
v. t.
To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
pl.
of Man
a.
Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.
superl.
Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.
n.
That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.
n.
Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.