Median (disambiguation)
# Median (disambiguation)

Median may refer to:

## Mathematics and statistics

* Median (statistics), in statistics, a number that separates the lowest- and highest-value halves
* Median (geometry), in geometry, a line joining a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side
* Median (graph theory), a vertex m(a,b,c) that belongs to shortest paths between each pair of a, b, and c
* Median algebra, an algebraic triple product generalising the algebraic properties of the majority function
* Median graph, undirected graph in which every three vertices a, b, and c have a unique median
* Geometric median, a point minimizing the sum of distances to a given set of points

## People

* Median (rapper), a rapper from the U.S. city of Raleigh, North Carolina

## Science and technology

* Median (biology), an anatomical term of location, meaning at or towards the central plane of a bilaterally symmetrical organism or structure
* Median filter, a nonlinear digital filtering technique used to reduce noise in images
* Median nerve, a nerve in humans and other animals located in the upper limb, one of the five main nerves originating from the brachial plexus

## Other

* Median language, the extinct Northwestern Iranian language of the Medes people
* Median Empire or Median Kingdom, an ancient Iranian empire predating the First Persian Empire
* Median consonant, a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue
* Median strip, the portion of a divided roadway used to separate opposing traffic; the British equivalent is central reservation
* Median triangle, an archaeological term referring to the area bounded by Hamadān, Malāyer and Kangāvar in Iran
