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mental age
noun
- the level of native mental ability or capacity of an individual, usually as determined by an intelligence test, in relation to the chronological age of the average individual at this level:
a ten-year-old child with the mental age of a twelve-year-old; a mental age of twelve.
mental age
noun
- psychol the mental ability of a child, expressed in years and based on a comparison of his test performance with the performance of children with a range of chronological ages See also intelligence quotient
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Example Sentences
The victim in the Arizona case, Adkins, was mentally disabled and was estimated to have a mental age of 13.
Miranda was very young at the time of writing, compared with her present mental age.
The calculation of mental age is therefore simplicity itself.
This figure we will use to indicate his mental age as distinguished from his chronological or physical or actual age.
If a child's mental age is the same as his chronological age, he is just average, neither bright nor dull.
This is the mental age divided by the chronological, and is usually expressed in per cent.
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