1. Adjective
Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
2. Adjective
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.
3. Noun
A median line or point.
4. Adjective
relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"
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5. Noun
the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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