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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grade point average
noun
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▪ Despite this tragedy, she graduated with the second highest grade point average in her high school.
Wiktionary
grade point average

n. A method of computing a numerical value for letter grades received in school by assigning each a numeric value and average the numbers.

WordNet
grade point average

n. 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: GPA]

Usage examples of "grade point average".

But I had to maintain a high grade point average, and while that was easy enough in academic subjects, it was devilishly hard in the subjective world of the arts.

He'd quickly gained a reputation as a man's man, and his fame and notoriety had grown in inverse exponential proportion to his grade point average.