mean velocity

From Glossary of Meteorology
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The time average of the velocity of a fluid at a fixed point, over a somewhat arbitrary time interval T counted from some fixed time t0.
For example, the mean velocity of the u component is
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The time average of any other quantity can be defined in this manner.
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