median

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the value below which 50% of the cases fall
  2. 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)
  3. adjective dividing an animal into right and left halves

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French median, from Latin mediānus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”). Doublet of mean and mizzen. Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.

In classic literature

Synonyms

median value

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