AVERAGE HEIGHT collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of average and height
average
adjective
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/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us
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/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 ...
height
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/haɪt/us
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/haɪt/
the distance from the top to the bottom of something, or the quality of ...
Examples of average height
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These changes in the average height of children were mirrored by changes in the average heights of the adult population.
Each value represents the average height + standard deviation - of about 30-40 structures measured at each time point.
The average height of his crop was over 5 feet.
Second, forest-phase, which could be either building-phase (average height of the canopy of the quadrat < 20 m) or mature-phase (> 20 m).
The average height is rather below four feet, although many full-grown adults may be found who are very much smaller than this.
In such a case the average height browsed was used in the calculations.
The paper also examines the relationship between changes in average height and changes in life expectancy.
Average height of each species and total number of species was recorded and the average height (m) of the ground stratum was estimated.
The age difference is reflected in taller average height for these destitute boys after 1783.
The average height of a given population is determined by the interaction between the environment in which it lives and the resources it commands.
The average height of a population is clearly a reflection of conditions during childhood, whereas weight is also determined by conditions during adulthood.
The second and third discuss some of the main trends in average height in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively.
Men of average height are not.
For example, a person can be described as tall if they exceed the average height of a population or as short if they are below this average height.
His parents are of average height.
Firstly, the tropopause (at an average height of 17 km) is generally thought to act as a barrier to the upward movement of particles (although not necessarily gases or volatiles).
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