median
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiː.dɪən/
ipa: /ˈmi.di.ən/
ipa: /ˈmiː.dɪən/
ipa: [ˈmɪi.di.ən]
Forms: form: medians
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane [translating mediane]?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 2:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
hypernyms: average
;
quantile#Noun
coordinate_terms: medial
mean
mean
average
mode
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 134:
synonyms: median strip
central reservation
reservation
coordinate_terms: safety island
traffic island
glosses: The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
Coordinate terms: word: median (2-quantile)
sense: 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.
word: tercile
sense: 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.
word: tertile
sense: The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
word: quartile
word: quintile
word: sextile
word: septile
word: octile
word: decile
word: hexadecile
word: ventile
word: vigintile
word: centile
word: percentile (100)
word: millile (1000)
Related terms: word: mean
word: medial
word: mediate
word: mediation
word: mediator
word: mediocre
word: mediocrity
word: medium
english: see explanation of overlap
translation: see explanation of overlap
word: mesial