Mode vs. Median
Modenoun
(music) One of several ancient Greek scales.
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(music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
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A particular means of accomplishing something.
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(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
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A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
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(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
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(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
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Style or fashion; trend (as in trendy).
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Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
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Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
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Variety; gradation; degree.
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Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.
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The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.
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Same as Mood.
Modenoun
The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
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A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
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the value of the variable in a frequency distribution or probability distribution, at which the probability or frequency has a maximum. The maximum may be local or global. Distributions with only one such maximum are called unimodal; with two maxima, bimodal, and with more than two, multimodal.
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how something is done or how it happens;
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a particular functioning condition or arrangement;
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a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
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verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
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any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
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the most frequent value of a random variable
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.
