Alternative form of meantime / A mean (average) amount of time.

Alternative form of means of transportation

(statistics) The mean (usually arithmetic, but possibly geometric) of all members of a population or all possible values from which a sample can be taken, as opposed to a sample mean.

(philosophy, religion) A hypothetical answer to all of life's ultimate questions; the purpose or raison d'être of human life.

(mathematics) The mean of the absolute magnitude of a function that has both positive and negative values.

plural of contraharmonic mean

(statistics) The phenomenon by which extreme examples from any set of data are likely to be followed by examples which are less extreme; a tendency towards the average of any sample. For example, the offspring of two very tall individuals tend to be tall, but closer to the average (mean) than either of their parents.

Alternative spelling of mean-spirited

Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition.

(statistics) Given a random sample mathbf x₁,…, mathbf x_N from an n-dimensional random variable mathbf X, a mean defined as