median : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: median	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for median
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
median adj 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); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" Synonym(s): median(a), average dividing an animal into right and left halves Synonym(s): medial, median relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle Synonym(s): median, medial n the value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: median, median value]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Median \Me"dian\, a. [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See {Medial}.] 1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median* groove. 2. (Zo[94]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"dian\, n. (Geom.) A median* line or point.