HARMONIC MEAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("harmonic mean" is a kind of...):

mean; mean value (an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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