Meaning of median | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
   archaic
2. A Mede.
3. The northwestern Old 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.
4. A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
5. central reservation
6. 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.
7. feminine singular of mediano
8. The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
   US

Equivalents

Examples

“Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane [translating mediane]?”

“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.”

“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.”

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