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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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medi?lis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) +? -?lis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?.di.?l/
• Rhymes: -i?di?l

Adjective

medial (comparative more medial, superlative most medial)

1. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a mean or average.

2. Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
   1. (anatomy, zootomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of a organ.

      Antonym: lateral

   2. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
   3. (phonetics) (of a speech sound) In the middle of a word.
   4. (phonetics) (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
   5. (linguistics) Closer to the addressee.

Coordinate terms

• (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior,? distal,? dorsal,? lateral,? medial,? posterior,? proximal,? ventral ^{(Category: en:Medicine) [edit]}

Derived terms

Related terms

• median

Translations

Noun

medial (plural medials)

1. Any of various things that occur in the middle.
   1. One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.

References

• “medial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “medial”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Dameli, Imelda, mailed

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /med?i?a?l/

Adjective

medial (not comparable)

1. medial

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French médial, from Latin medialis.

Adjective

medial m or n (feminine singular medial?, masculine plural mediali, feminine and neuter plural mediale)

1. medial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medi?lis. Cf. also meaja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?djal/, [me?ð?jal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

medial (plural mediales)

1. medial

Derived terms

• anteromedial
• inferomedial
• superomedial

Further reading

• “medial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.