median(s = adj.all) average - 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"

Derived form noun median₁

median(s = adj.all) medial - dividing an animal into right and left halves; Array
median(s = adj.all) medial - relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle; Array

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CIDE DICTIONARY

median, a. [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See Medial.].

Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove. [1913 Webster]
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.

median, n.

A median line or point. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

median, adj. & n.
--adj. situated in the middle.
--n.
1 Anat. a median artery, vein, nerve, etc.
2 Geom. a straight line drawn from any vertex of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side.
3 Math. the middle value of a series of values arranged in order of size.

Derivative

medianly adv.

Etymology

F m{eacute}diane or L medianus (as MEDIAL)

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THESAURUS

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, 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

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ROGET THESAURUS

median

Mean

N mean, average, median, mode, balance, medium, mediocrity, generality, golden mean middle, compromise, middle course, middle state, neutrality, mediocrity, least common denominator, mean, intermediate, middle, average, neutral, mediocre, middle-class, commonplace, on an average, in the long run, taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all, communibus annis, in round numbers, medium tenuere beati.

Middle

N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.

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