median

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For all homes, including condos and new homes, the median was also $330,000, down 43.8 percent.

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  1. adjective Relating to, located in, or extending toward the middle.
  2. adjective Anatomy Of, relating to, or situated in or near the plane that divides a bilaterally symmetrical animal into right and left halves; mesial.
  3. adjective Statistics Relating to or constituting the middle value in a distribution.
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  • Half the units are for seniors who earn 60\% below the household median, and the remainder is for those earning no more than 180\% of the median-which on Staten Island is $55,039. —  Crain's New York Business - Breaking News Feeds
  • However, the median is the midpoint, neither a minority nor majority. —  بالاترین
  • Thus the median was the most robust estimate of nearest-neighbor spacing. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • "You were definitely in the lower echelon; the median was about 15," said Dominique "Nikka" —  Statesman - AP Sports
  • Because the median is a point at which half the sales are for more and half for less, it is easily swayed by the mix of homes sold, especially in small markets with few sales.
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  1. Latin mediānus, from medius, middle; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French médian = Spanish Portuguese Italian mediano, from Latin medianus, that is in the middle, from medius, middle: see medium. Cf. mean and mizzen, ult. doublets of median.
 

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