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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Median \Me"di*an\ (m[=e]"d[i^]*an), a. [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See Medial .] Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove. (Zo["o]l.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a median part," 1540s, from Latin medianus (see median (adj.)). Meaning "middle number of a series" is from 1883.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In geometry , a median of a triangle is a line segment joining a vertex to the midpoint of the opposing side. Every triangle has exactly three medians, one from each vertex, and they all intersect each other at the triangle's centroid . In the case of isosceles ...
Usage examples of median.
The median to the base of an isosceles triangle is the perpendicular bisector of the base!
To her surprise, however, Cerise was right: the Eight-Ball Cafe, built on a median set between the two lanes of the flyway, proved to be both clean and relatively friendly.
In order to ascertain how far it might be possible for a bar of the size causing the injury to traverse the skull in the track assigned to it, Bigelow procured a common skull in which the zygomatic arches were barely visible from above, and having entered a drill near the left angle of the inferior maxilla, he passed it obliquely upward to the median line of the cranium just in front of the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures.
Drillings were made to a depth of one km under the north flank of Ceraunius Tholus, in locations where the ground was 10-50 microkelvins warmer than the flank median.
So, even though braking would not be required until the ship reached the balk line ten days hence, Gorgas ordered the Flip when they reached the median of the grand secant and hosted the traditional meal that very evening.
Deep in a median level of his dark subconscious Britt is aware of the tiny island of light created here by the investigating teams, of how small and weak this island is against the many miles of misty blackness that press in from the vast moors and down from the infinite dark dome of galactic space above.
Herbivora, or the vertical cutting one of the flesh-eating mammals, the rodent has a longitudinal motion given by the arrangement of the lower jaw, the condyle of which is not transverse, but parallel with the median line of the skull, and the glenoid fossa, or cavity into which it fits, and which is situated on the under side of the posterior root of the zygoma, is so open in front as to allow of a backwards and forwards sliding action.
Chapter 11 McAllister reached the wooded median strip separating the northbound and southbound lanes of the interstate, and held up.
They are probably an inheritance from the Median kings, whom the Achaemenids imitate in so many things.
At the University Hospital, Philadelphia, White has extracted, by median cystotomy, a long wax taper which had been used in masturbation.
He rejected the idea, never proposed, that there might be someone or something on the other side of an imaginary median line to match his parts and their relationships and into which he might theoretically flow.
A billion USD will go just to finance intranet servers - or, at least, this is the median forecast.
Boulevard, feeding into the north side of its median strip which was lined on both sides with spectators, many of them packed up against storefronts on the far side of the street.
The road here was curious, with one paved path like a private driveway, a thin grass median, then the road proper with its cars and streetcars, then another grass median, and the final car path before the opposite sidewalk.
It was on the inside of Bennie's right arm and had come very close to the large median vein.