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adjective

Median adj.

Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

(Zool.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.

Median line.

(a)

(Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body.

(b)

(Geom.) The line drawn from an angle of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side; any line having the nature of a diameter.

Median plane (Anat.), the mesial plane.

Median point (Geom.), the point where the three median lines of a triangle mutually intersect.

noun

Median n. (Geom.) A median line or point.

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Etymology of 'Median'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... large portion of the country of Elam, he assumed the title of "King of Ansan," and engaged in a long war with Astyages (Istivegu), his former suzerain, which terminated (in B.C. 549) in his taking the Median monarch prisoner and succeeding to his dominions. It was at once recognized through Asia that a new peril had arisen. The Medes, a mountain people of great physical strength and remarkable bravery, had for about a century been regarded as the most powerful people of Western Asia. They had now been ...

— Ancient Egypt • George Rawlinson

... efforts of surgeons to invent some method that would be less dangerous than that which has been heretofore commonly employed. The cutting operations have been the rule. Of these the operation by median-section is the safest, and is most commonly employed for the removal of stones that are not too large, while the lateral operation is used where the stone is more than about one inch in ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... had mentioned Zoroastrianism, there came to light, in those later times, scores of oracles, styled "Oracula Chaldaica sive Magica," the work of Neo-Platonists who were but very remote disciples of the Median sage. As his name had become the very emblem of wisdom, they would cover with it the latest inventions of their ever-deepening theosophy. Zoroaster and Plato were treated as if they had been philosophers of the same school, and Hierocles expounded their doctrines in the ...

— Sacred Books of the East • Various

... the historians get mixed again. Some say that Belshazzar was the last king of Babylonia. In Daniel v. 30, we read: 'In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom.' Xenophon informs us that Babylon was taken in the night while the inhabitants were engaged in feasting and revelry, and that the king was killed. To this extent sacred and profane history agree. The country became a Persian province. Then it was conquered ...

— Asiatic Breezes - Students on The Wing • Oliver Optic

... intellectual and artistic vitality, the convulsive struggles for freedom, the calamitous downfalls of empire, and the strange new regenerations which fill the pages of ancient and mediaeval history. Alike when the oriental myriads, Assyrian, Chaldean, Median, Persian, Bactrian, from the snows of Syria to the Gulf of Ormus, from the Halys to the Indus, poured like a deluge upon Greece and beat themselves to idle foam on the sea-girt rock of Salamis and the lowly plain of Marathon; when all the kingdoms of the earth went ...

— Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia • Various

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