About The Word Median
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Median
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What's The Definition Of Median?
[n] the value below which 50% of the cases fall
[adj] relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle [adj] dividing an animal into right and left halves Synonyms | Synonyms for Median: central | medial | median value | mesial Related Terms | Find terms related to Median: amidships | average | balance | banal | center | centermost | central | common | core | diameter | diaphragm | equator | equatorial | equidistant | generality | golden mean | halfway | happy medium | heart | intercurrent | interior | interjacent | intermediary | intermediate | intervenient | intervening | juste-milieu | kernel | mean | medial | mediocre | mediocrity | mediterranean | medium | mesial | mesne | mezzo | mid | middle | middle course | middle ground | middle point | middle position | middle state | middlemost | middle-of-the-road | middling | midland | midmost | midpoint | midriff | midships | midst | midway | moderate | norm | normal | nuclear | nucleus | ordinary | par | routine | rule | run | standard | thick | thick of things | usual | via media | waist | waistline | zone Median In Webster's Dictionary \Me"di*an\, a. [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See
{Medial}.]
1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a
median groove.
2. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
{Median line}.
(a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either
of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the
surface of the body.
(b) (Geom.) The line drawn from an angle of a triangle to
the middle of the opposite side; any line having the
nature of a diameter.
{Median plane} (Anat.), the mesial plane.
{Median point} (Geom.), the point where the three median
lines of a triangle mutually intersect.
\Me"di*an\, n. (Geom.) A median line or point. |
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