Media vs. Median
Medianoun
(anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
Medianoun
A voiced stop consonant.
Medianoun
(entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
Medianoun
(zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
Medianoun
plural of medium
Medianoun
Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
Medianoun
The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
Media
The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, (Computers) place your installation media into the device which will read it; (Microbiology) the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media.
Media
The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed with Monica Lewinsky for months.
Medianoun
One of the sonant mutes
Medianoun
an ancient region of Asia to the south-west of the Caspian Sea, corresponding approximately to present-day Azerbaijan, north-western Iran, and north-eastern Iraq. Originally inhabited by the Medes, the region was conquered in 550 BC by Cyrus the Great of Persia.
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.
