Definitions for Median

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Median me·di·an

Spelling: [mee-dee-uh n]

IPA: /ˈmi di ən/

Median is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in Median (adeimn).

Definitions for Median

noun

1. Arithmetic, Statistics. the middle number in a given sequence of numbers, taken as the average of the two middle numbers when the sequence has an even number of numbers:
2. Geometry. a straight line from a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
3. Also called midpoint. a vertical line that divides a histogram into two equal parts. Compare central tendency.
4. median strip.
5. a Mede.
6. the Iranian language of ancient Media, contemporaneous with Old Persian.

adjective

1. Statistics. relating to the value in the center of the distribution for an array of data:
2. noting or relating to a plane dividing something into two equal parts, especially one dividing an animal into right and left halves.
3. situated in or relating to the middle; medial.
4. of or relating to Media, the Medes, or their language.

Origin of Median

First recorded in 1535-45, median is from the Latin word mediānus in the middle. See medium, -an

Examples for Median

The median household income in inflation-adjusted dollars back in 1987 was… well, what do you think?

Mesal: pertaining to, situated on or in the median plane of the body.

The median total exemption rate was 1.8 percent this year, the same as in 2012-2013.

Unlike most other telemarketers, they have a median net worth of almost $900,000.

This would restore overtime rights to workers earning up to around $50,000 a year, which is roughly the current median.

He did not see that his children had been brought up in the median fashion, by women and eunuchs.

median household income peaked in America in 1999, under Bill Clinton, at $56,080.

median forks: in Orthoptera, refers to the forks of the median vein.

median shade or line: in Lepidoptera, crosses at or about middle of wings.

The elytra are soldered at the median edge, so that it cannot spread its wings to fly.