Altitude vs. Median
Altitudenoun
The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
Altitudenoun
A vertical distance.
Altitudenoun
(geometry) The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.
Altitudenoun
(astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
Altitudenoun
Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
Altitudenoun
Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
Altitudenoun
Highest point or degree.
Altitudenoun
Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.
Altitudenoun
The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.
Altitudenoun
The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc.
Altitudenoun
Height of degree; highest point or degree.
Altitudenoun
Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
Altitudenoun
Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs.
Altitudenoun
elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface;
Altitudenoun
the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to opposite vertex (or side if parallel)
Altitudenoun
angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
Altitude
Altitude or height (also sometimes known as depth) is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or direction, between a reference datum and a point or object. The exact definition and reference datum varies according to the context (e.g., aviation, geometry, geographical survey, sport, or atmospheric pressure).
Mediannoun
A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
Mediannoun
(geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
Mediannoun
(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.
Mediannoun
(US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
Medianadjective
Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.
Medianadjective
In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
Medianadjective
(statistics) Having the median as its value.
Medianadjective
Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
Medianadjective
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.
Mediannoun
A median line or point.
Mediannoun
the value below which 50% of the cases fall
Medianadjective
relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set);
Medianadjective
dividing an animal into right and left halves
Medianadjective
relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
Median
In statistics and probability theory, the median is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as value.
