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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the value below which 50% of the cases fall;
[syn: median, median value]


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values);
- Example: "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"
- Example: "the median income for the year was $15,000"
[syn: median(a), average]

2. dividing an animal into right and left halves;
[syn: medial, median]

3. relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle;
[syn: median, medial]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster] Median line. (a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body. (b) (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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Median \Me"di*an\, n. (Geom.) A median line or point. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

median adj 1: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average] 2: dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: medial, median] 3: relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle [syn: median, medial] n 1: the value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: median, median value]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "median": amidships, average, balance, banal, center, centermost, central, common, core, diameter, diaphragm, equator, equatorial, equidistant, generality, golden mean, halfway, happy medium, heart, intercurrent, interior, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate, intervenient, intervening, juste-milieu, kernel, mean, medial, mediocre, mediocrity, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mesne, mezzo, mid, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midpoint, midriff, midships, midst, midway, moderate, norm, normal, nuclear, nucleus, ordinary, par, routine, rule, run, standard, thick, thick of things, usual, via media, waist, waistline, zone