Definition of Meian
Me"di*an (?), a. [L. medianus,
fr. medius middle. See Medial.] 1.
Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a
median groove.
2. (Zoöl.) 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.
Median line. (a) (Anat.)
Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in
which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body.
(b) (Geom.) The line drawn from an angle
of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side; any line having the
nature of a diameter. -- Median plane
(Anat.), the mesial plane. -- Median
point (Geom.), the point where the three median
lines of a triangle mutually intersect.
Me"di*an, n. (Geom.) A
median line or point.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (statistics) The measure of central tendency of a set of n values computed by ordering the values and taking the value at position (n + 1) / 2 when n is odd or the arithmetic mean of the values at positions n / 2 and (n / 2) + 1 when n is even.
- Having the median as its value.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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