Medial vs. Median
Medialadjective
Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
Medialadjective
In or near the middle; not at either end.
Medialadjective
(anatomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.
Medialadjective
(entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
Medialadjective
(linguistics) Closer to the addressee.
Medialadjective
Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
Medialnoun
Any of various things that occur in the middle.
Medialnoun
One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
Medialadjective
Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.
Medialnoun
See 2d Media.
Medialadjective
dividing an animal into right and left halves
Medialadjective
relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
Medialadjective
situated in the middle.
Medialadjective
situated near the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ
Medialadjective
(of a speech sound) in the middle of a word
Medialadjective
(of a vowel) pronounced in the middle of the mouth; central.
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.
