单词 | median |
释义 | median —medianly, adv. /mee"dee euhn/, adj. 1. noting or pertaining to a plane dividing something into two equal parts, esp. one dividing an animal into right and left halves. 2. situated in or pertaining to the middle; medial. n. 3. Arith. , Statistics. 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. 4. Geom. a straight line from a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side. 5. Also called midpoint. a vertical line that divides a histogram into two equal parts. Cf. central tendency. 6. See median strip. [1535-45; < L medianus in the middle. See MEDIUM, -AN] |
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