average temperature

noun

1. The typical temperature of a place or period, found by adding up many measurements and dividing by the number of measurements.

   B1

   countable/uncountable

   • "The average temperature in summer here is about 30 degrees."A2
   • "We calculated the average temperature from readings taken throughout the day."B1
   • "Meteorologists calculated the average temperature over a fifty-year period to smooth out yearly fluctuations."C1

2. The mean temperature of the whole planet or a large region, used especially when talking about climate change.

   B2

   often used in the phrase "global average temperature"

   • "The global average temperature has gone up in the last hundred years."B2
   • "A rise in average temperature of two degrees would seriously affect farming in the region."B2
   • "Researchers compare present-day average temperatures with proxy records from ice cores to place recent warming in context."C1