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Median point

Median \Me"di*an\ (m[=e]"d[i^]*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.

    1. (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body.

    2. (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 point".

It's probably that this was most pronounced at the effective median point, causing an extra node to appear in the transfers at a point equidistant to the other two as prediction in Flume's Third Equation, and Turffe's Law would see to it that the distortion would stabilize in such a way as to create three separate points, each moving a roughly equal mass one jump around the triangle.

Using that station as a median point to develop a descriptive probability from which to predict which other stations might have been infiltrated.

She moves with alertness and cunning, dropping against the wall now and then to observe, then coming out to the median point.

The portal slid shut behind him, and the cage began to rise on the brass cable, up toward the median point between ceiling and floor where the other inhabited cells waited.