Meaning

4 senses
  1. A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.

    Seitenhalbierende

    медиа́наmediána

  2. A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.

  3. (US)The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.

  4. (archaic)A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.

    Median

    медиа́наmediána

    медіа́наmediána

More definitions
  • the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Courage is the median between cowardice and foolhardiness.

    ruСмелость — это медиана между трусостью и безбашенностью. — Wezel · CC BY 2.0 FR

  2. Averages come in three flavors: mean, median, and mode.

  3. Yuri's truck slid off the road into the median.

  4. It is important to know the difference between mean and median.

    deEs ist wichtig, den Unterschied zwischen Mittelwert und Median zu kennen. — bigfellow68

  5. That guy is all over the median. Is he drunk?

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
statistics: measure of central tendency:
Русский
By meaning 1
statistics: measure of central tendency:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
statistics: measure of central tendency:
geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French median, from Latin mediānus (“of or pertaining to the middle”,

Borrowed from Middle French median, from Latin mediānus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). Doublet of mean and mizzen. Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.

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Forms

plural: medians
Singularmedian
Pluralmedians

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items:median value

Word family

10 related words

See also

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