Median
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English
Noun
Median (plural Medians)- (anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:
- Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane [transl. mediane]?
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:
- (statistics) The quantity or value at the midpoint of a set of values, such that the variable is equally likely to fall above or below it; the middle value of a discrete series arranged in magnitude (or the mean of the middle two terms when there is an even number of terms).
- (US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
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Adjective
Median (not comparable)
- Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.
- (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
- (statistics) Having the median as its value.
Thesaurus
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
Etymology
From Middle French median < Latin medianus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective) < medius (“middle”) (see medium) < Proto-Indo-European *medhy- (“middle”). Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.
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Adjective
Median
- accusative of media; environmental
Finnish
Noun
median
- genitive singular form of media
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Spanish
Verb
Median (infinitive mediar)
- Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of mediar.
- Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present indicative form of mediar.
Swedish
Noun
Median c.
- median value
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
nominative | Median | Medianen | Medianer | Medianerna |
genitive | Medians | Medianens | Medianers | Medianernas |
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