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median¹
- /ˈmiː.di.ən/ UK
- /ˈmi.di.ən/ Canada, US
- /ˈmiː.di.ən/ Australia
- [ˈmɪi.di.ən] Australia
- /ˈmiː.di.ən/ New Zealand
Where it comes from
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.
noun medians
- A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane [translating mediane]?
- A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
- 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.
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The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
Seen from street level, the median was clean most days. From the third floor you peered over the benches and trees and saw the trash crowding the subway ventilation grates and paving stones.
Similar: median strip, central reservation, reservation
adjective
- Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
- In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb. Cellariiform, the orifices nearly confined to the convex frontal and lateral surfaces; the basal surface with a strong median calcareous keel, almost concealed by a flat membranous epitheca, which covers the whole zoarium […]
- Having the median as its value.
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Whose alters are less differentiated, construed as being in a grey area between singlet and multiple.
Similar: midcontinuum
Median²
- /ˈmiːdɪən/
adjective Medean
- Relating to Media or Medes. Lucullus seeing certaine Median men at armes, which were in the front of Tigranes Army, heavily and unweildily armed, as in an iron prison, apprehended thereby an opinion, that he might easily defeat them[…].
- Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable. ‘This proceeding,’ interposed the president, ‘is by no means in accordance with the terms of the mulct or sentence, which is in its nature Median, and not to be altered or recalled.’
noun Medians · Medean
- A Mede.
proper noun Medean
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The northwestern Old Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian, few borrowings in Old Armenian and some glosses in Ancient Greek; nothing is known of its grammar.
Similar: Medic
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: mesial, central, medial, average, normal, midline, media, psychotic, medium, half, equatorial, east, middle, midway, mid, midpoint
Translations
Every language
noun central vein or nerve
| Português | mediano |
|---|
noun statistics: measure of central tendency
| Español | mediana |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 중간(中間)값 junggan'gap, 중위수 jung'wisu, 중앙(中央)값 jung'anggap |
| 日本語 | 中間数 chūkansū, 中央値 chūōchi, 中位数 chūisū |
| 中文 | 中位數 /中位数 zhōngwèishù |
| Português | mediana |
| Français | médiane |
| Deutsch | Median |
| Italiano | mediano |
| Ελληνικά | διάμεσος diámesos |
| Română | mediană |
| Русский | медиа́на mediána |
| Tiếng Việt | trung vị |
| العربية | وَسِيط wasīṭ |
| עברית | חֶצְיוֹן ẖetzyón |
noun geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
| 한국어 | 중선 jungseon |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 中線 /中线 zhōngxiàn |
| Français | médiane |
| Deutsch | Seitenhalbierende |
| Română | mediană |
| Русский | медиа́на mediána |
| Tiếng Việt | trung tuyến |
| עברית | תִּיכוֹן tichón |
adj having the median as its value
| Español | mediano |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 中位 zhōngwèi |
| Français | médian, médiane |
| Deutsch | mittler |
| Ελληνικά | μεσαίος mesaíos |
| Русский | медиа́нный mediánnyj |
name language
| Español | idioma medo |
|---|---|
| Português | língua meda |
| Deutsch | Medisch |
| Русский | мидийский midijskij |
| العربية | ميدي |
Talk about this word "median." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/median. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. median. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/median "median." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/median.Cite this
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title = {median},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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