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Word: median
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Having the median as its value.
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Noun:
- anatomy The middlemost marquee of the body that divides the subject in a symmetrical fashion, such as a '''median'' sagittal section', which divides the body symmetrically on a vertical plane, as opposed to a 'parasagittal section', which is a vertical cross section that does not divide on a parallel symmetrical alignment.
- statistics The measure of central tendency of a set of n values computed by ordering the values and taking the value at position (n + 1) / 2 when n is odd or the arithmetic mean of the values at positions n / 2 and (n / 2) + 1 when n is even.
- The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic in the United States. This area is often covered with vegetation, but also may be covered in concrete and possess traffic accident safety devices such as guardrails.
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Proper noun:
- The northwestern Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian; nothing is known of its grammar.
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