Definition of Median. Meaning of Median. Synonyms of Median

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Definition of Median

Median
Median Me"di*an, a. [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See Medial.] 1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove. 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. 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
Median Me"di*an, n. (Geom.) A median line or point.

Meaning of Median from wikipedia

- The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a po****tion, or a probability distribution...
- The median income is the income amount that divides a po****tion into two groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below...
- In computer science, the median of medians is an approximate median selection algorithm, frequently used to supply a good pivot for an exact selection...
- reference to the anatomy of the human or other members of the Bilateria, the median plane, also called the midsagittal plane and related terms, is used to describe...
- of the ****yrians in the Zagros region led to the process of unifying the Median tribes. By 612 BCE, the Medes became strong enough to overthrow the declining...
- The Median multiple or Median house price to income ratio is a housing indicator used to indicate the affordability of housing in any given community...
- The Medes were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around...
- The median artery is an artery that is occasionally found in humans and other animals. The prevalence was around 10% in people born in the mid-1880s compared...
- Median cut is an algorithm to sort data of an arbitrary number of dimensions into series of sets by recursively cutting each set of data at the median...
- Look up Median, median, médian, medían, or medián in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Median may refer to: Median (statistics), in statistics, a number...