Found 2 items, similar to Median.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: median median adj 1: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set); “the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20”; “the median income for the year was $15,000” [syn: median(a), average] 2: dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: medial] 3: relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle [syn: medial] n : the value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: median value ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Median Median \Me"di*an\, n. (Geom.) A median line or point. [1913 Webster] 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. (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. [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]