Meaning

• A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.

• A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.

• The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

• A method or means by which something may be accomplished.

  "There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem."

• (urban toponymy) A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.

Meaning

• The arithmetic mean.

  "The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18."

• Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

• (marine) 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.

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

  "batting average"

• (in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

Meaning

• 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.