'Median' definitions:
Definition of 'median'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: median(a), average]
adjective
Dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: medial, median]
adjective
Relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle [syn: median, medial]
noun
The value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: median, median value]
Definition of 'Median'
From: GCIDE
- Median \Me"di*an\, n. (Geom.) A median line or point. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Median'
From: GCIDE
- Median \Me"di*an\ (m[=e]"d[i^]*an), a. [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See Medial.]
- 1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'median'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- middle-of-the-road,
- middlemost,
- 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