moving average

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noun Statistics.

one of a succession of averages of data from a time series, where each average is calculated by successively shifting the interval by the same period of time.

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Origin of moving average

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby moving average

moviemaker, movieoke, movie theater, Movietone, moving, moving average, moving coil, moving picture, moving sidewalk, moving staircase, moving stairway

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How to use moving average in a sentence

It was seen by a small delegation of star-struck prelates and dignitaries who later described the film as “moving.”
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Yung Lean was born Jonatan Leandoer Håstad in Belarus, before moving to Sweden at the age of 3.
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In the 1950s, you had people like Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger moving back and forth between the two worlds.
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“You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.
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Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.
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They ranged from moving trunks to cleaning cisterns, and, by grace of all of them, Sim was doing very well.
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She had listened—she had listened intently, looking straight out of the window and without moving.
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First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?
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I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Thus all about us is the moving and shifting spectacle of riches and poverty, side by side, inextricable.
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British Dictionary definitions for moving average

moving average

noun

statistics (of a sequence of values) a derived sequence of the averages of successive subsequences of a given number of members, often used in time series to even out short-term fluctuations and make a trend clearerthe 3-term moving average of 4, 6, 8, 7, 9, 8 is 6, 7, 8

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