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Temporal average shapes of crackling noise avalanches, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>U</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>U</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> is the detected parameter proportional to the interface velocity), have self-similar behavior, and it is expected that by appropriate normalization, they can be scaled together according to a universal scaling function. There are also universal scaling relations between the avalanche parameters (amplitude, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>A</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>, energy, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>E</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>, size (area), <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mo>,</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and duration, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>T</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>), which in the mean field theory (MFT) have the form <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>E</mi><mo>∝</mo><msup><mi>A</mi><mn>3</mn></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mo>∝</mo><msup><mi>A</mi><mn>2</mn></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mo>∝</mo><msup><mi>T</mi><mn>2</mn></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. Recently, it turned out that normalizing the theoretically predicted average <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>U</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> function at a fixed size, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>U</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>=</mo><mi>a</mi><mi>t</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>x</mi><msup><mi>p</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>b</mi><msup><mi>t</mi><mn>2</mn></msup></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>a</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>b</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> are non-universal, material-dependent constants) by <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>A</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> and the rising time, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>R</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>, a universal function can be obtained for acoustic emission (AE) avalanches emitted during interface motions in martensitic transformations, using the relation <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mo>~</mo><msup><mi>A</mi><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>−</mo><mi>φ</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> too, where <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>φ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> is a mechanism-dependent constant. It was shown that <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>φ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> also appears in the scaling relations <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>E</mi><mo>~</mo><msup><mi>A</mi><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>−</mo><mi>φ</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mo>~</mo><msup><mi>A</mi><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>−</mo><mi>φ</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, in accordance with the enigma for AE, that the above exponents are close to 2 and 1, respectively (in the MFT limit, i.e., with <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>φ</mi><mo>=</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> 0, they are 3 and 2, respectively). In this paper, we analyze these properties for acoustic emission measurements carried out during the jerky motion of a single twin boundary in a Ni₅₀Mn_28.5Ga_21.5 single crystal during slow compression. We show that calculating from the above-mentioned relations and normalizing the time axis of the average avalanche shapes with <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>A</mi><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>−</mo><mi>φ</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, and the voltage axis with <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>A</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>, the averaged avalanche shapes for the fixed area are well scaled together for different size ranges. These have similar universal shapes as those obtained for the intermittent motion of austenite/martensite interfaces in two different shape memory alloys. The averaged shapes for a fixed duration, although they could be acceptably scaled together, showed a strong positive asymmetry (the avalanches decelerate much slower than they accelerate) and thus did not show a shape reminiscent of an inverted parabola, predicted by the MFT. For comparison, the above scaling exponents were also calculated from simultaneously measured magnetic emission data. It was obtained that the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>φ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> values are in accordance with theoretical predictions going beyond the MFT, but the AE results for <i>φ</i> are characteristically different from these, supporting that the well-known enigma for AE is related to this deviation.