Usually means: Middle value in ordered list.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Median, median: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Median, median: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. median: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. median: Collins English Dictionary
  5. median: Vocabulary.com
  6. Median, median: Wordnik
  7. median: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Median, median: Wiktionary
  9. median: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. median: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. median: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. median: Dictionary.com
  13. median: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. median: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Median (disambiguation), Median (geometry), Median (highway), Median (mathematics), Median (road), Median (statistics), Median (triangle), Median: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Median: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. median: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. median: Rhymezone
  19. Median: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. median: Free Dictionary
  21. median: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. median: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. median: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. median: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. MEDIAN: Accounting Glossary
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Median: Moneyterms
  7. Median: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  8. Median: Investopedia
  9. Median: Energy Dictionary
  10. Median (in statistics), Median (mathematics), Median (statistics), median: Legal dictionary
  11. Median (in statistics), Median (mathematics), Median (statistics), median: Financial dictionary
  12. Median: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Median: Game Dictionary
  2. median: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. Median (in statistics), Median (mathematics), Median (statistics), median: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  5. median: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  7. Median (in statistics), Median (mathematics), Median (statistics), median: Medical dictionary
  8. Median: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  10. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. Median: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. median: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Median: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  6. Median: Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
  7. median: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  8. Bryological (No longer online)
  9. Median: Extragalactic Astronomy
  10. Median: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  11. median, median, median: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  12. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  13. Statistics (No longer online)
  14. Median (Med): Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Median: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See medianly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
noun:  (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
noun:  (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. 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.
noun:  (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic; the median strip.
adjective:  (anatomy) Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
adjective:  (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
adjective:  (statistics) Having the median as its value.
adjective:  Relating to Media or Medes.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable.
noun:  A Mede.
noun:  The northwestern Old Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian, few borrowings in Old Armenian and some glosses in Ancient Greek; nothing is known of its grammar.

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