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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024me•di•an /ˈmidiən/USA pronunciation adj. [usually: before a noun]- situated in or relating to the middle:a low median income.
n. [countable] - the middle number in a sequence of numbers, or the average of the middle two numbers of an even-numbered sequence:4 is the median of 1, 3, 4, 8, 9.
- a straight line from an angle of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
- Civil EngineeringAlso called ˈme•di•an ˈstrip. a strip in the middle of a highway to separate opposite lanes of traffic.
See -medi-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024me•di•an (mē′dē ən),USA pronunciation adj. - noting or pertaining to a plane dividing something into two equal parts, esp. one dividing an animal into right and left halves.
- situated in or pertaining to the middle;
medial.
n. - [Arith., Statistics.]the middle number in a given sequence of numbers, taken as the average of the two middle numbers when the sequence has an even number of numbers:4 is the median of 1, 3, 4, 8, 9.
- [Geom.]a straight line from a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
- EconomicsAlso called midpoint. a vertical line that divides a histogram into two equal parts. Cf. central tendency.
- Transport, Civil EngineeringSee median strip.
- Latin mediānus in the middle. See medium, -an
- 1535–45
- of or pertaining to Media, the Medes, or their language.
n. - a Mede.
- the Iranian language of ancient Media, contemporaneous with Old Persian.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: median /ˈmiːdɪən/ adj - of, relating to, situated in, or directed towards the middle
- of or relating to the median
n - a middle point, plane, or part
- a straight line joining one vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side
- a straight line joining the midpoints of the nonparallel sides of a trapezium
- the middle value in a frequency distribution, below and above which lie values with equal total frequencies
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin mediānus, from medius middleˈmedianly adv |