3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Median \Me"di*an\, a. [L. medianus fr medius middle. See
{Medial}.]
1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as a
median groove.
2. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
{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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Median \Me"di*an\, n. (Geom.)
A median line or point.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
median
adj 1: (statistics) relating to or constituting the middle value of
an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle
two in an even-numbered set); "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}]
3: relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
[syn: {medial}]
n : the value below which 50% of the cases fall
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