Median (disambiguation)
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Median may refer to:
Mathematics and statistics
- Median (statistics), in statistics, a number that separates the lowest- and highest-value halves
- Median (geometry), in geometry, a line joining a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side
- Median (graph theory), a vertex m(a,b,c) that belongs to shortest paths between each pair of a, b, and c
- Median algebra, an algebraic triple product generalising the algebraic properties of the majority function
- Median graph, undirected graph in which every three vertices a, b, and c have a unique median
- Geometric median, a point minimizing the sum of distances to a given set of points
People
- Median (rapper), a rapper from Raleigh, North Carolina
Science and technology
- Median (biology) an anatomical term of location, meaning at or towards the central plane of a bilaterally symmetrical organism or structure
- Median filter, a nonlinear digital filtering technique used to reduce noise in images
- Median nerve, a nerve in humans and other animals located in the upper limb, one of the five main nerves originating from the brachial plexus
Other
- Median language, the extinct language of the Medes people
- Median strip, The portion of a divided roadway used to separate opposing traffic. The British equivalent is central reservation
- Median triangle, an archaeological term referring to the area bounded by Hamadān, Malāyer and Kangāvar in Iran
See also
- Medes, an ancient Iranian people who lived in Media, in the northwest of present-day Iran
- Mediant, in music, the note halfway between the tonic and the dominant
- Mediant (mathematics), a fraction created from the sums of the numerators and denominators of two other fractions
- Medial (disambiguation)
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