median

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmiː.di.ən/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈmi.di.ən/
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• Australian: /ˈmiː.di.ən/
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• Australian: [ˈmɪi.di.ən] cultivated
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• South-Asia: /ˈmiɖ(ɪ)jən/
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• /ˈmiːdɪən/
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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.

Etymology tree English Media Middle English -n English -n English Median From Media + -n.

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: среден (sreden) — situated in the middle
• Catalan: medià — situated in the middle
• Finnish: keskeinen — situated in the middle
• Finnish: keski- — situated in the middle
• Portuguese: mediano — situated in the middle
• Portuguese: central — situated in the middle
• Spanish: mediano — situated in the middle
• Welsh: canol — situated in the middle
• Chinese Mandarin: 中位 (zhōngwèi) — having the median as its value
• Czech: mediánový — having the median as its value
• Dutch: mediaan — having the median as its value
• Finnish: mediaani- — having the median as its value
• French: médian — having the median as its value
• French: médiane — having the median as its value
• German: mittler — having the median as its value
• Greek: μεσαίος (mesaíos) — having the median as its value
• Russian: медиа́нный (mediánnyj) — having the median as its value
• Spanish: mediano — having the median as its value
• Ukrainian: медіа́нний (mediánnyj) — having the median as its value
• Armenian: մարական (marakan) — relating to Media or Medes
• Armenian: մեդական (medakan) — relating to Media or Medes
• Catalan: mede — relating to Media or Medes
• Catalan: mèdic — relating to Media or Medes
• Danish: medisk — relating to Media or Medes
• Finnish: meedialainen — relating to Media or Medes
• German: medisch — relating to Media or Medes
• Irish: Méideach — relating to Media or Medes
• Polish: medyjski — relating to Media or Medes
• Russian: мидийский (midijskij) — relating to Media or Medes
• Welsh: Medaidd — relating to Media or Medes
• Arabic: ميدي — language
• Armenian: մարերեն (mareren) — language
• Armenian: մեդերեն (mederen) — language
• Azerbaijani: Midiya dili — language
• Catalan: mèdic — language
• Czech: médština — language
• Danish: medisk — language
• Finnish: meedia — language
• German: Medisch — language
• Irish: Méidis — language
• Central Kurdish: مادی (madî) — language
• Northern Kurdish: medî — language
• Persian: مادی (mâdi) — language
• Polish: język medyjski — language
• Portuguese: língua meda — language
• Russian: мидийский (midijskij) — language
• Serbo-Croatian: Medijski jezik — language
• Spanish: idioma medo — language
• Talysh: Midijə zyvon — language
• Turkish: Medce — language
• Ukrainian: Мідійська мова (Midijsʹka mova) — language
• Urdu: مادی زبان — language
• Zazaki: Medki — language
• Finnish: keskihermo — central vein or nerve
• Portuguese: mediano — central vein or nerve
• Azerbaijani: median — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Bulgarian: медиана (mediana) — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Chinese Mandarin: 中線 /中线 (zhōngxiàn) — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Danish: median — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Esperanto: mediano — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Finnish: keskijana — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Finnish: mediaani — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• French: médiane — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• German: Seitenhalbierende — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Hebrew: תִּיכוֹן (tichón) — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Hungarian: súlyvonal — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Indonesian: garis berat — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Irish: meánlíne — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Korean: 중선 (jungseon) — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Romanian: mediană — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Russian: медиа́на (mediána) — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Vietnamese: trung tuyến — geometry: line segment joining vertex and midpoint of opposing side
• Arabic: وَسِيط (wasīṭ) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Azerbaijani: median — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Belarusian: медыя́на (mjedyjána) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Bulgarian: медиа́на (mediána) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Catalan: mediana — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Chinese Cantonese: 中位數 /中位数 — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Chinese Mandarin: 中位數 /中位数 (zhōngwèishù) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Czech: medián — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Dutch: mediaan — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Esperanto: mediano — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Finnish: mediaani — statistics: measure of central tendency
• French: médiane — statistics: measure of central tendency
• German: Median — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Greek: διάμεσος (diámesos) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Hebrew: חֶצְיוֹן (ẖetzyón) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Hungarian: medián — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Hungarian: mediánérték — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Hungarian: középérték — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Icelandic: miðgildi — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Icelandic: miðtala — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Ido: mediano — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Indonesian: median — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Irish: airmheán — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Italian: mediano — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Japanese: 中間数 (chūkansū) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Japanese: 中央値 (chūōchi) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Japanese: 中位数 (chūisū) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Korean: 중간(中間)값 (junggan'gap) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Korean: 중위수 (jung'wisu) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Korean: 중앙(中央)값 (jung'anggap) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Māori: tau waenga — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Polish: mediana — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Portuguese: mediana — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Romanian: mediană — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Russian: медиа́на (mediána) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Serbo-Croatian: medìjān — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Spanish: mediana — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Swedish: median — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Tagalog: gitnaan — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Ukrainian: медіа́на (mediána) — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Vietnamese: trung vị — statistics: measure of central tendency
• Welsh: canolrif — statistics: measure of central tendency