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Meaning of 'median' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Median [ a.]
- Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
- 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.
2 . Median [ n.]
- A median line or point.

Meaning of 'median' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . median [ s]
Meaning (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 in sentence:
  • the median income for the year was $15,000;
  • the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20

Nearby Words:

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