median

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  median    Mede  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
median /ˈmiːdɪən/

▶adjective

• 1 technical, chiefly Anatomy situated in the middle, especially of the body.

• 2 denoting or relating to a value or quantity lying at the mid point of a frequency distribution of observed values or quantities.

  ■ denoting the middle term (or mean of the middle two terms) of a series arranged in order of magnitude.

▶noun

• 1 a median value.

• 2 (also median strip) North American term for central reservation.

• 3 Geometry a straight line drawn from any vertex of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side.

– derivatives
medianly adverb.

– origin ME: from med. L. medianus, from medius ‘mid’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Mede /miːd/

▶noun a member of an Indo-European people who inhabited ancient Media (present-day Azerbaijan, NW Iran, and NE Iraq), establishing an extensive empire during the 7th century bc.

– derivatives
Median adjective.