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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Median \Me"di*an\, noun (Geom.) A median line or point.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Median \Me"di*an\ (m[=e]"d[i^]*an), adjective [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See {Medial}.]
1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
2. (Zo["o]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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
median
adjective
1: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: {median(a)}, {average}]
2: dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: {medial}]
3: relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle [syn: {medial}]
noun: the value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: {median value}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "median": amidships, average, balance, banal, center, centermost, central, common, core, diameter, diaphragm, equator, equatorial, equidistant, generality, golden mean, halfway, happy medium, heart, intercurrent, interior, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate, intervenient, intervening, juste-milieu, kernel, mean, medial, mediocre, mediocrity, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mesne, mezzo, mid, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midpoint, midriff, midships, midst, midway, moderate, norm, normal, nuclear, nucleus, ordinary, par, routine, rule, run, standard, thick, thick of things, usual, via media, waist, waistline, zone
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