median

English Online Dictionary. What means median‎? What does median mean?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French median, from Latin mediānus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). Doublet of mean and mizzen. Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.dɪən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.di.ən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.dɪən/, [ˈmɪi.di.ən]

Noun

median (plural medians)

2. (anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]
4. (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
6. (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. 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. [from 19th c.]

   Coordinate terms: medial, mean, average

8. (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic; the median strip. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• (median strip): central reservation

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (statistics):
• median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100), millile (1000)

Related terms

• mean
• medial
• mediate
• mediation
• mediator
• medium
• mediocre
• mediocrity
• mesial (see explanation of overlap)

Translations

Adjective

median (not comparable)

2. (anatomy) Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something). [from 16th c.]

   Coordinate terms: medial, mesial

3. (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb. [from 16th c.]
4. (statistics) Having the median as its value. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• average
• mean
• mode

Anagrams

• Damien, Eidman, Maiden, Manide, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, maiden, mained, medina, meidan

Esperanto

Adjective

median

1. accusative singular of media

Finnish

Noun

median

1. genitive singular of media

Anagrams

• maiden

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch mediaan, from Latin medianus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). Doublet of madya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meˈdian]
• Hyphenation: mé‧di‧an

Noun

médian (plural median-median)

1. median,
   1. (statistics) the number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half
   2. (geometry) a line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side
   3. (road transport) the median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic
2. medium, anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container

   Synonym: sedang

3. (printing, dated) pica: 12-point type
4. (printing, dated) mediaan, a former Nederland paper size, 470 mm × 560 mm

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “median” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French médian, from Latin medianus.

Adjective

median m or n (feminine singular mediană, masculine plural medieni, feminine and neuter plural mediene)

1. median

Declension

Spanish

Verb

median

1. third-person plural present indicative of mediar

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medianus; compare English median.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

median c

1. median value

Declension

Related terms

• medianvärde