- 1. a. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 3. n. A median line or point. Source: opted
- 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) Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. dividing an animal into right and left halves Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle Source: wordnet
- 7. n. the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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. Source: adambom
- 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 Source: ecdict
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