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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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