Median Definition
mēdē-ən
medians
adjective
Relating to, located in, or extending toward the middle.
American Heritage Medicine
Middle; intermediate.
Webster's New World
Designating the plane that divides a body or part into symmetrical parts.
Webster's New World
Designating a line joining the midpoints of the nonparallel sides of a trapezoid.
Webster's New World
Relating to or constituting the middle value in a distribution.
American Heritage Medicine
noun
medians
A median number, point, or line.
Webster's New World
An artery, vein, nerve, etc. in the middle of the body or along the imaginary plane that bisects the body into the right and left halves.
Webster's New World
The strip of land separating the lanes of opposing traffic of a divided highway.
Webster's New World
A line that joins a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
American Heritage Medicine
A Mede.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Median
Noun
Singular:
median
Plural:
mediansOrigin of Median
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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.
From Wiktionary
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Latin mediānus from medius middle medhyo- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Mede +"Ž -ian.
From Wiktionary
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