median

Meanings

Plural: medians

Noun

• the value below which 50% of the cases fall
• A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
• A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
• A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
• The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic; the median strip.

Adjective Satellite

• relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
  • "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"
  • "the median income for the year was $15,000"
• dividing an animal into right and left halves
• relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle

Adj

• Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
• In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
• Having the median as its value.

Synonyms

average, central reservation, medial, median value

Related Words

average, mean, medial, mediate, mediation, mediator, mediocre, mediocrity, medium, mesial, mode

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