— medianly , adv.
/mee"dee euhn/ , adj.
1. noting or pertaining to a plane dividing something into two equal parts, esp. one dividing an animal into right and left halves.
2. situated in or pertaining to the middle; medial.
n.
3. Arith. , Statistics. 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.
4. Geom. a straight line from a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
5. Also called midpoint . a vertical line that divides a histogram into two equal parts. Cf. central tendency .
6. See median strip .
[ 1535-45; medianus in the middle. See MEDIUM, -AN ]