Median

['miːdɪən] or ['midɪən]

Definition

(noun.) the value below which 50% of the cases fall.

(adj.) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle .

(adj.) 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' .

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Definition

(a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

(a.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.

(n.) A median line or point.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Middle.

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Definition

adj. being in the middle running through the middle: situated in the median plane that dividing the body longitudinally into symmetrical halves.—adv. Med′ianly.—n. Med′iant (mus.) the third tone of a diatonic scale.

adj. pertaining to Media or the Medes an ancient Aryan race which became fused with the Persians under the victorious Cyrus about 550 B.C.—n. Mede a member of this race.

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