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MEDIAN VALUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
Synonyms:
median; median value
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("median value" is a kind of...):
average; norm (a statistic describing the location of a distribution)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)