Median

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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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