different between latitude vs median

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French latitude, from Latin l?tit?d? (“breadth, width, latitude”), from l?tus (“broad, wide”), from older stl?tus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?læt.?.tju?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?læt.?.tud/, /?læt.?.tjud/

Noun

latitude (countable and uncountable, plural latitudes)

1. (geography, astronomy) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
2. (geography) An imaginary line (in fact a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
3. The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.

   His parents gave him a great deal of latitude.

4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
5. (photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.

   Wikipedia article on exposure latitude

6. Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.

Usage notes

• When used to refer to distances or imaginary lines around a planet, latitude is relative to the Earth's Equator unless another planet is specified.

Hyponyms

• ascending latitude
• geolatitude
• high latitude
• low latitude

Derived terms

• high-latitude
• isolatitude
• latitude by account
• low-latitude
• mid-latitude

Related terms

• circle of latitude
• horse latitudes

Translations

See also

• longitude
• zonal

Anagrams

• altitude

French

Etymology

From Latin l?tit?d? (“breadth, width, latitude”), from l?tus (“broad, wide”), from older stl?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.ti.tyd/

Noun

latitude f (plural latitudes)

1. expansion, breadth

   Ce principe peut avoir une grande latitude.

   Donner trop de latitude à une proposition, à l’application d’un principe.

   Laisser beaucoup de latitude aux agents chargés d’une mission.

   Avoir toute latitude pour: avoir toute liberté pour.

2. (geography) The distance from a place to the equator measured in degrees on the meridian; parallel viewing.
   • 1921, Henry-D. Davray and B. Kozakiewicz (translators), H.G. Wells (author), La Guerre dans les Airs, Mercure de France, page 174:

     C’est ici que ça se passe, 30°50’ de latitude nord, 30°50’ de longitude ouest… à une journée de distance pour nous, et ils filent sud-sud-ouest à toute vapeur. À ce train-là nous ne verrons rien, […].

   • 1928, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Dans la mer du Groenland:

     Le Scoresby Sund est le plus vaste fjord du monde entier. Il est découpé dans la côte Orientale du Groenland entre 70° et 72° de latitude Nord et 22° et 30° de longitude Ouest de Greenwich.

   • 1929, Alain Gerbault, À la poursuite du soleil, volume 1: De New-York à Tahiti:

     […] le 12 mars, par 20 degrés de latitude Nord, je rencontrai les vents alizés, je pouvais compter dorénavant sur un plus faible et agréable navigation dans les mers tropicales.

3. (by extension) Different areas under a given temperature due to their greater or lesser distance from the equator.

   À la différence des animaux, l’homme peut vivre sous les latitudes les plus opposées.

4. (astronomy) The angle with a plane parallel to the ecliptic, the straight line that passes through a heavenly body and a particular centre on this plane.

   Latitude australe ou boréale.

   Latitude héliocentrique, géocentrique, etc.

   Latitude de Sirius.

5. freedom

Antonyms

• longitude

References

• All or part of this article is from the Dictionary of the French Academy, Eighth Edition, 1932-1935, but it may have been modified since.

Further reading

• “latitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

From Latin l?tit?d? (“breadth, width, latitude”).

Noun

latitude f (oblique plural latitudes, nominative singular latitude, nominative plural latitudes)

1. breadth

Descendants

• ? Middle English: latitude
• French: latitude

Portuguese

Noun

latitude f (plural latitudes)

1. (geography, astronomy) latitude (angular distance north or south from the equator)
2. (geography) latitude (imaginary line parallel to the equator)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French median, from Latin medianus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos (“middle”). Doublet of mean and mizzen. Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?d??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mi?di.?n/

Noun

median (plural medians)

1. (anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]
2. (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
3. (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values. [from 19th c.]
4. (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic; the median strip. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• (median strip): central reservation

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)

Related terms

• mean
• mediate
• mediation
• mediator
• medium
• mediocre
• mediocrity

Translations

Adjective

median (not comparable)

1. Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something). [from 16th c.]
2. (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb. [from 16th c.]
3. (statistics) Having the median as its value. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• median line
• median strip

Translations

See also

• average
• mean
• mode

Anagrams

• Damien, Eidman, Maiden, Manide, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, maiden, mained, medina, meidan

Esperanto

Adjective

median

1. accusative singular of media

Finnish

Noun

median

1. Genitive singular form of media.

Anagrams

• maiden

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch mediaan, from Latin medianus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos (“middle”). Doublet of madya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [me?dian]
• Hyphenation: mé?di?an

Noun

median or médian

1. median,
   1. (statistics) the number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half.
   2. (geometry) a line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
   3. the median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
2. medium, anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.

   Synonym: sedang

3. (printing, dated) pica: 12-point type
4. (printing, dated) mediaan, a former Nederland paper size, 470 mm × 560 mm.

Related terms

Further reading

• “median” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

From French médian, from Latin medianus.

Adjective

median m or n (feminine singular median?, masculine plural medieni, feminine and neuter plural mediene)

1. median

Declension

Spanish

Verb

median

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of mediar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of mediar.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medianus; cf. English median.

Noun

median c

1. median value

Declension

Related terms

• medianvärde