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Definition of median :
1. A median line or point.
2. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
3. 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.
Synonyms:
Arabic numeral, calculable, double-digit, divisible, cosine, edge, connection, decimal, common factor, arithmetic progression, common multiple, cos, perpendicular, cotangent, central reservation, hexadecimal, constant, binary, minute, camber, base, carpool lane, median value, chicane, cube root, computation, even, midsize, modest, cube, annualized, intermediary, oblique, mesial, obtuse, corner, cloverleaf, bike lane, coefficient, bicycle lane, orthogonal, indivisible, degree, mediate, bend
average (part of speech: adjective)
mean, midmost, standard, ordinary, stock, halfway, customary, middle-of-the-road, run-of-the-mill, average, stereotype, medium, middling, mediocre, commonplace, moderate, dominant, predominant, mid, everyday, mezzo, usual, conventional, common, normal
middle (part of speech: noun)
core, pivotal, nuclear, bisection, medial, marrow, half-and-half, center, axis, heart, midpoint, half, nucleus, kernel, axial, halfway point, equidistant, pivot, hub, geocentric, centralized, bisecting, mediocrity, midst, epicenter, nub, intermediate, central, middle
central (part of speech: adjective)
innermost, main, midway, interior, focal
Usage examples:
- The front of the head was thickly clothed with golden hair, which hung down bang- like over a round, glistening, single, median eye. - "Edge of the Jungle", William Beebe.
- But to the Median War and contemporary history we must refer, although we are rather tired of continually bringing this subject forward. - "The History of the Peloponnesian War", Thucydides.
- 1 as being preceded by the Median, which in its turn had been preceded by the Babylonian. - "Introduction to the Old Testament", John Edgar McFadyen.