Marked by imprecision and vacillation; inconstant; uncertain: The wishy-washy player keeps putting off the evil day/ It's not overpowering like Opium and not wishy-washy [1873+; fr a rhythmic reduplication of washy, ''weak, diluted, watered-down,'' probably influenced by wishy as suggesting vacillating desires; the original sense was ''weak, insubstantial, trashy,'' found by 1703]
Medical Definition of avidity. : a characteristic of antibodies (such as antitoxins) that tends to enhance their rate or stability in binding with an antigen Antibody avidity is an average measure of the affinity of the antibodies for a particular antigen in a serum sample.âDominic F. Kelly, The New England Journal of Medicine, 21 Dec. 2005.
AVID is an elective class at each high school and middlel school in Humble ISD. AVID helps to place students in a more personally challenging course load supported by specialized tutoring and lessons on organizational and study skills. Guest speakers are also a major part of the class. Each semester the AVID class will visit a college campus and experience, for that day, what college is like.