English

Alternative forms

• Medean

Adjective

Median ‎(not comparable)

1. Relating to Media or Medes. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.9:

     Lucullus seeing certaine Median men at armes, which were in the front of Tigranes Army, heavily and unweildily armed, as in an iron prison, apprehended thereby an opinion, that he might easily defeat them […].

2. (obsolete) Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable. [17th-19th c.]
   • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘King Pest’:

     ‘This proceeding,’ interposed the president, ‘is by no means in accordance with the terms of the mulct or sentence, which is in its nature Median, and not to be altered or recalled.’

   • 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann 2000, p. 50:

     And if you venture to object to these Median laws, – as I am now doing, – you elicit a chorus of disapproval, and acquire some evil name.

Translations

Noun

Median ‎(plural Medians)

1. a Mede
2. The northwestern Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian, few borrowings in Old Armenian and some glosses in Ancient Greek; nothing is known of its grammar.

Translations

Synonyms

• Medic

Anagrams

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

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Median terms
• Median on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ISO 639-3 code xme (SIL)
• Linguist List entry for Median, code xme

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈdi̯aːn/

Noun

Median m

1. median (statistics: measure of central tendency)

Synonyms

• Zentralwert

English

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, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, 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. (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
3. (statistics) In statistics and probability theory, the median is the number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. 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. [from 19th c.]
4. (US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic. [from 20th c.]

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)

Synonyms

• (median strip): central reservation

Related terms

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

Translations

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

Derived terms

• median line
• median strip

See also

• average
• mean
• mode

Anagrams

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

Esperanto

Adjective

median

1. accusative singular of media

Finnish

Noun

median

1. Genitive singular form of media.

Anagrams

• maiden

Spanish

Verb

median

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.

Swedish

Noun

median c

1. median value

Declension

Related terms

• medianvärde