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Noun
(anatomy) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]
(geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
(statistics) In statistics and probability theory, the median is the number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. 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 mean of the two middle values. [from 19th c.]
(US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic. [from 20th c.]
