Word: Median
How to pronounce: ˈmiːdɪən
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Denoting or relating to a value or quantity lying at the midpoint of a frequency distribution of observed values or quantities, such that there is an equal probability of falling above or below it.
Example sentences: "The median duration of this treatment was four months"
2. Situated in the middle, especially of the body.
Example sentences: "The median part of the sternum"
Noun
Definitions:
1. The median value of a range of values.
Example sentences: "Acreages ranged from one to fifty-two with a median of twenty-four"
2. The strip of land between the lanes of opposing traffic on a divided highway.
Example sentences: "Coimbatore city has many such road medians, roadside parks and traffic islands."
3. A straight line drawn from any vertex of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side.
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Relating to Media, an ancient region of Asia to the southwest of the Caspian Sea.
Example sentences: "The Median empire"
Synonyms:
middle
medium
central
moderate
average
mid
median line
mean
intermediate
intermediary
midsize
middling
modest
halfway
midsized
Derivations:
medial
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Median in Other Languages...
Spanish: Mediana
German: Mediane
French: Médian
Italian: Mediano
Turkish: Medyan
