median英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. archaic

— Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane [translating mediane]?
A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic. US

— Seen from street level, the median was clean most days. From the third floor you peered over the benches and trees and saw the trash crowding the subway ventilation grates and paving stones.

形容词 adj.

Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something). not-comparable
In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb. not-comparable

— Cellariiform, the orifices nearly confined to the convex frontal and lateral surfaces; the basal surface with a strong median calcareous keel, almost concealed by a flat membranous epitheca, which covers the whole zoarium […]
Having the median as its value. not-comparable

词形变化

medians plural

词汇关系

衍生词

admedian antemedian anterior median fissure anteromedian antimedian basomedian bimedian caudomedian centromedian dorsomedian externomedian extramedian inframedian internomedian intramedian median age median effective time median egret median eminence median lethal time median line medianly median plane median strip median survival time median system nonmedian paramedian posteriomedian posteromedian postmedian pseudomedian submedian supramedian transmedian ventromedian

词源

词源 1

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.

词源 2

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.