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Median

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
median (noun)
1.
a part (as a vein or nerve) - medial
2.
a) a value in an ordered set of values below and above which there is an equal number of values or which is the arithmetic mean of the two middle values if there is no one middle number
b) a vertical line that divides the histogram of a frequency distribution into two parts of equal area
c) a value of a random variable for which all greater values make the cumulative distribution function greater than one half and all lesser values make it less than one half
3.
a) a line from a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side
b) a line joining the midpoints of the nonparallel sides of a trapezoid
4.
- median strip average
median (adjective)
1.
being in the middle or in an intermediate position - medial
2.
lying in the plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves
3.
relating to or constituting a statistical median
4.
produced without occlusion along the lengthwise middle line of the tongue
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
median (adjective)
1.
being about midway between extremes of amount or size
SYNONYMS:
average, intermediate, mean, median, medium, middling, midsize ( midsized), moderate, modest
RELATED WORDS:
reasonable; common, commonplace, conventional, normal, popular, regular, routine, standard, typical, usual; adequate, passable, tolerable
NEAR ANTONYMS:
excessive, extreme; exceptional, rare, strange, uncommon, unusual; distinctive, idiosyncratic, special, unique; individual, peculiar, private
median (adjective)
2.
occupying a position equally distant from the ends or extremes
SYNONYMS:
central, halfway, intermediary, intermediate, medial, median, mediate, medium, mid, midmost
RELATED WORDS:
equidistant; inmost, inner, innermost, nearest; betwixt and between, borderline, gray ( grey), in-between
NEAR ANTONYMS:
outer, peripheral
extreme, farthest, farthermost, furthermost, furthest, outermost, outmost, remotest, utmost
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