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 the U.S. city of 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 consonant, a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue
• 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)
• Medium (disambiguation)