| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| mean deviation | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the difference between an observed value of a variable and its mean |
| 2. | mean deviation from the mean, mean deviation from the median, Also: average deviation a measure of dispersion derived by computing the mean of the absolute values of the differences between observed values of a variable and the variable's mean |
| mean deviation
In a statistical distribution, the average of the absolute values of the differences between individual numbers and their mean. |