median
Meaning of median
noun
- A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
- A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
- The number separating the higher half of a data sample, a 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 mean of the two middle values.
- The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
- Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.
- In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
- Having the median as its value.
Information about median
- The plural form of median is: medians.
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Hyphenation of median
me-dian
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- median is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
median synonyms
Meaning average:
Meaning medial:
Translation of median
Anagrams of median
aidmen, daimen, Damien, damine, demain, dimane, Maiden, maiden, mained, Mandie, Medina, medina
Words that rhyme with median
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