🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Median

Pronunciation / Transliteration: median

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Median/ˈmiː.di.ən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Der Median der Testergebnisse betrug 75."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample.

    "In the dataset of test scores, the median score was 75, indicating that half of the students scored above this value."
  2. 2

    In statistics, the median is the middle number in a sorted list of numbers.

    "To find the median of the numbers 3, 5, and 7, you would arrange them in order and select the middle value, which is 5."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'median' originates from the Latin word 'medianus', meaning 'in the middle'. It was adopted into English in the late 14th century, initially used in a mathematical context to describe the middle value in a set of numbers.

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