Percentage vs. Average — What's the Difference?

In mathematics, a percentage (from Latin per centum "by a hundred") is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%", although the abbreviations "pct.", "pct" and sometimes "pc" are also used.

In colloquial language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a non-empty list of numbers. Different concepts of average are used in different contexts.

A rate, number, or amount in each hundred

A number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number

A fraction or ratio with 100 understood as the denominator; for example, 0.98 equals a percentage of 98.

The apportionment of financial liability resulting from loss of or damage to a ship or its cargo.

The result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent.

Constituting the result obtained by adding together several amounts and then dividing this total by the number of amounts

A proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part

Amount to or achieve as an average rate or amount over a period of time; mean

An amount, such as an allowance, duty, or commission, that varies in proportion to a larger sum, such as total sales

A number that typifies a set of numbers of which it is a function.

(Informal) Advantage; gain

See arithmetic mean.

The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

An intermediate level or degree

A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

The usual or ordinary kind or quality

(informal) Benefit or advantage.

(Sports)The ratio of a team's or player's successful performances such as wins, hits, or goals, divided by total opportunities for successful performance, such as games, times at bat, or shots

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

The loss of a ship or cargo, caused by damage at sea.

A proportion multiplied by 100

The incurrence of damage or loss of a ship or cargo at sea.

Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group;

The equitable distribution of such a loss among concerned parties.

A charge incurred through such a loss.

(Nautical)Small expenses or charges that are usually paid by the master of a ship.

(Mathematics)Of, relating to, or constituting an average.

Being intermediate between extremes, as on a scale

Usual or ordinary in kind or character

Assessed in accordance with the law of averages.

(Mathematics)To calculate the average of

To do or have an average of

To distribute proportionately

To be or amount to an average

(mathematics) The arithmetic mean.

(statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

(sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

Typical.

(informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

(transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

(transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

(transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

(intransitive) To be, generally or on average.

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

A tariff or duty on goods, etc.

A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.

Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.

In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.

According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.

To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.

To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.

To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.

To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.

A statistic describing the location of a distribution;

Amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain;

Achieve or reach on average;

Compute the average of

Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value;

Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered;

Of no exceptional quality or ability;

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;

Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution;

Relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set);