median

4 definitions found

median - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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. (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.
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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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  Median \Me"di*an\, n. (Geom.)
     A median line or point.
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median - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  median
      adj 1: 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]
      2: dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: medial,
         median]
      3: relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
         [syn: median, medial]
      n 1: the value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: median,
           median value]

median - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "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