median

See also Median, médian, medían, and medián

English

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle French median, from Latin medianus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *medhy- (“middle”). Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.

Noun

median (plural medians)

1. (anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:

     Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane [transl. mediane]?

   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.5.2:

     The Greeks prescribe the median or middle vein to be opened, and so much blood to be taken away as the patient may well spare, and the cut that is made must be wide enough.

2. (statistics) The quantity or value at the midpoint of a set of values, such that the variable is equally likely to fall above or below it; the middle value of a discrete series arranged in magnitude (or the mean of the middle two terms when there is an even number of terms). [from 19th c.]
3. (US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic. [from 20th c.]

Related terms

• mean
• mediate
• mediation
• mediator
• medium
• mediocre
• mediocrity

Translations

central vein or nerve

statistics: measure of central tendency

Croatian: medìjān (hr) m. Czech: medián (cs) m. Dutch: mediaan (nl) Esperanto: mediano (eo) Finnish: mediaani (fi) French: médiane (fr) f. German: Median (de) m. Greek: διάμεσος (el) f.

Icelandic: miðgildi (is) n., miðtala (is) f. Ido: mediano (io) Italian: mediano (it) m. Japanese: 中間数 Polish: mediana (pl) f. Russian: медиана f. (mediana) Spanish: mediana (es) f. Welsh: canolrif (cy) m.

the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic in the United States

Dutch: middenberm (nl)

Greek: διαχωριστική νησίδα (el) (ðiakhoristikí nisíða) f.

Adjective

median (not comparable)

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

Translations

having the median as its value

Dutch: mediaan (nl) Finnish: mediaaninen French: médian (fr) m., médiane (fr) f. German: mittler

Greek: μεσαίος (el) m., μεσαία (el) f., μεσαίο (el) n. Russian: медианный m., медианная f., медианное n. Spanish: mediano (es) m., mediana (es) f.

Related terms

• median strip

See also

• average
• mean
• mode

Anagrams

• aidmen
• Damien
• demain
• maiden
• medina, Medina
• meidan

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Esperanto

Adjective

median

1. accusative of media; environmental

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Finnish

Noun

median

1. Genitive singular form of media.

Anagrams

• maiden

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Spanish

Verb

median (infinitive mediar)

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of mediar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of mediar.

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Swedish

Noun

median c.

1. median value

Declension

Declension of median

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	median	medianen	medianer	medianerna
genitive	medians	medianens	medianers	medianernas

Related terms

• medianvärde