'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]