Main entry: median, median value
Definition: the value below which 50% of the cases fall
Definition: relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
Definition: dividing an animal into right and left halves
Definition: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
Usage: the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20; the median income for the year was $15,000