median
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Median means middle. When a strip of grass divides one direction of a highway from another, it's called a median because it runs through the middle.
Median comes from the Latin word medius, which also means middle. In math, the median is a number in the middle of a list. In the set 2, 3, 5, 10, 25, the median is 5. The statistical median is often linked to the idea of an average. A town's average income might seem high if there are two extremely rich people who live there. The median will tell you the income of the person halfway through the list.
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relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
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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)
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dividing an animal into right and left halves
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the value below which 50% of the cases fall
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synonyms:
median value
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a paved or landscaped dividing area between opposing lanes of travel on a highway
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type of:
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area
a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
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area
mean / median / average
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