average out

present singular third person averages out · participle present averaging out · participle past averaged out · past averaged out

1. intransitiveTo acquire a specified average value as more instances occur.

   Between 1854 (and the addition of in-patient facilities) and 1870 the mortality rates in the Wakefield Infirmary averaged out to 9.94 per cent for in-patients and 3.18 per cent for out-patients.

   1987, Hilary Marland, Medicine and society in Wakefield and Huddersfield, 1780-1870