['mi:d??n]
¦ adjective
1. technical, chiefly Anatomy situated in the middle, especially of the body.
2. denoting or relating to a value or quantity lying at the mid point of a frequency distribution of observed values or quantities.
denoting the middle term (or mean of the middle two terms) of a series arranged in order of magnitude.
¦ noun
1. a median value.
3. Geometry a straight line drawn from any vertex of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side.
Derivatives
medianly adverb
Origin
ME: from med. L. medianus, from medius 'mid'.