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Median

Median Definition And Meaning
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 See Also \| average \| norm Median In Webster's Dictionary \Me"dian\, 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"dian\, n. (Geom.) A median line or point.

Median Definition And Meaning

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

See Also | average | norm

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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