1. a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted; [syn: grade point average, GPA]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grade point average
n 1: a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college
or university; calculated by dividing the total number of
grade points received by the total number attempted [syn:
grade point average, GPA]