median, medial
(adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
medial, median
(adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves
median, median value
(noun) the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Median (not comparable)
Relating to Media or Medes. [from 16th c.]
(obsolete) Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable. [17th-19th c.]
Median (plural Medians)
A Mede.
Median
The northwestern Old Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian, few borrowings in Old Armenian and some glosses in Ancient Greek; nothing is known of its grammar.
• Medic
• Damien, Maiden, Manide, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, maiden, mained, medina, meidan
median (plural medians)
(anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]
(geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
(statistics) The number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. 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.]
(US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic. [from 20th c.]
• (median strip): central reservation
• quantile
• (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)
median (not comparable)
Situated in the middle; central, intermediate. [from 16th c.]
(anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb. [from 16th c.]
(statistics) Having the median as its value. [from 19th c.]
• Damien, Maiden, Manide, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, maiden, mained, medina, meidan
Source: Wiktionary
Me"di*an, a. Etym: [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See Medial.]
1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: 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.
Me"di*an, n. (Geom.)
Definition: A median line or point.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 July 2025
(noun) the process of introducing an acetyl group into a compound; “the acetylation of cyclooxygenase-2 by aspirin”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
