- the middle number in a given sequence of numbers, taken as the average of the two middle numbers when the sequence has an even number of numbers: 4 is the median of 1, 3, 4, 8, 9.
- a straight line from a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
- a vertical line that divides a histogram into two equal parts.
- median strip.
- relating to the value in the center of the distribution for an array of data: the median income of American households.
- noting or relating to a plane dividing something into two equal parts, especially one dividing an animal into right and left halves.
- situated in or relating to the middle; medial.
- of or relating to Media, the Medes, or their language.
- a Mede.
- the Iranian language of ancient Media, contemporaneous with Old Persian.
- of, relating to, situated in, or directed towards the middle
- of or relating to the plane that divides an organism or organ into symmetrical parts
- of or relating to the median
- a middle point, plane, or part
- geometry
- a straight line joining one vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side
- a straight line joining the midpoints of the nonparallel sides of a trapezium
- the middle value in a frequency distribution, below and above which lie values with equal total frequencies
- the middle number or average of the two middle numbers in an ordered sequence of numbers
- the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a highway
