median

1. 1.

   the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items

   Synonymsmedian value

   Broaderaverage

   statistics

Other forms of median

plural

medians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about median

What does median mean?

median means "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)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in median?

median has 3 syllables: me-di-an. The stress falls on "me". In IPA it is /ˈmidiən/.

What is another word for median?

Close synonyms include average, medial, medial, median value. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is median a common word?

median is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with median?

1 word rhymes with median. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.