To interpret someone's argument.

simple past tense of take the meaning

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of take the meaning

present participle of take the meaning

present participle of mean business

The mean absolute deviation. / A commonly accepted standard or value.

(statistics) The mean (usually arithmetic, but possibly geometric) of all members of a population or all possible values from which a sample can be taken, as opposed to a sample mean.

(philosophy, religion) A hypothetical answer to all of life's ultimate questions; the purpose or raison d'être of human life.

(mathematics) The mean of the absolute magnitude of a function that has both positive and negative values.

plural of regression to the mean