noting or pertaining to a plane dividing something into two equal parts, esp. one dividing an animal into right and left halves.
situated in or pertaining to the middle; medial.
—n.
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.
a straight line from a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
Also calleda vertical line that divides a histogram into two equal parts. Cf.