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HARMONIC MEAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does harmonic mean mean?
• HARMONIC MEAN (noun)
The noun HARMONIC MEAN has 1 sense:
1. the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers
Familiarity information: HARMONIC MEAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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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