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.
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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.
Usage examples of "median line".
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.
Driving into town along Old Pecos Trail, passing the adobe-walled Santa Fe Woman's Club on the left, approaching the pueblo-style Baptist church on the right, he reached the crest of the hill, saw the jogging shoes on the yellow median line, and steered his police car onto the dirt shoulder of the road.
He looked for Fist-of-God Mountain near the Ringworld's median line, to port of the Great Ocean.
In the first brief glance I had of it, I saw fins forward below its median line, a long, longitudinal aileron (or so I judged it to be) running almost the full length of the ship, and strangely designed elevator and rudder as part of the empennage assembly.
I gave the matter of a gag only a passing thought: there may be those who know how to draw a happy median line between suffocating a man and making a gag loose enough to permit breathing without at the same time letting the victim be heard a hundred yards away, but I'm not one of them.
He slowed and beckoned from the window, startling a fat lady standing on the median line.
Apparently the Liar had smashed down very close to the median line of the ring.
Stand upright, feet together, left arm at side, right across body, holding Wand or other weapon upright in the median line.