Crossword clues for median
median
- Highway feature
- Highway divider
- ___ income
- Mean alternative
- Middle of the road?
- The value below which 50% of the cases fall
- Kind of strip or point
- Mode's companion
- Strip in the middle of a highway
- Highway strip
- Maybe press name central figure
- In the middle; statistical value
- Math class calculation
- In the middle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Median \Me"di*an\, n. (Geom.) A median line or point.
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.
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(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.
(Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body.
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(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Middle French médian (15c.) and directly from Latin medianus "of the middle," from medius "in the middle" (see medial (adj.)). Originally anatomical, of veins, arteries, nerves. Median strip "strip between lanes of traffic" is from 1954.
"a median part," 1540s, from Latin medianus (see median (adj.)). Meaning "middle number of a series" is from 1883.
Wiktionary
1 Situated in the middle; central, intermediate. (from 16th c.) 2 (context anatomy botany English) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or lim
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) 3 (context statistics English) Having the median as its value. (from 19th c.) n. 1 (context anatomy now rare English) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. (from 15th c.) 2 (context statistics English) In statistics and probability theory, the '''median''' is the number separating the higher half of a data Sample (statistics), a statistical population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. 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 arithmetic mean of the two middle values. (from 19th c.) 3 (context US English) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic. (from 20th c.)
WordNet
adj. relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average]
dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: medial]
relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle [syn: medial]
n. the value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: median value]
Wikipedia
The median is the value separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. In simple terms, it may be thought of as the "middle" value of a data set. For example, in the data set {1, 3, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9}, the median is 6, the fourth number in the sample. The median is a commonly used measure of the properties of a data set in statistics and probability theory.
The basic advantage of the median in describing data compared to the mean (often simply described as the "average") is that it is not skewed so much by extremely large or small values, and so it may give a better idea of a 'typical' value. For example, in understanding statistics like household income or assets which vary greatly, a mean may be skewed by a small number of extremely high or low values. Median income, for example, may be a better way to suggest what a 'typical' income is.
Because of this, the median is of central importance in robust statistics, as it is the most resistant statistic, having a breakdown point of 50%: so long as no more than half the data are contaminated, the median will not give an arbitrarily large or small result.
Median may refer to:
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 and equilateral triangles, a median bisects any angle at a vertex whose two adjacent sides are equal in length.
The concept of a median extends to tetrahedra.
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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.