Thesaurus: median

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1. a. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
2. a. 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.
3. n. A median line or point.
4. adj. relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
5. adj. dividing an animal into right and left halves
6. adj. relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
7. n. the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
8. 1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove. 2. (Zoöl.) 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. A median line or point.
9. Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateralanimal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs andparts; as, median coverts. Median line. (a) (Anat.) Any line in themesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial planemeets the surface of the body. (b) (Geom.) The line drawn from anangle of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side; any linehaving the nature of a diameter.-- Median plane (Anat.), the mesial plane.-- Median point (Geom.), the point where the three median lines of atriangle mutually intersect.
10. j:72/n:28 n. the value below which 50% of the cases fall s. relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) s. relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle