medians
Highway center strips
Medians is the plural of median.
A median is the middle value in a sorted list of numbers—half fall above it, half below.
Unlike the mean, medians resist distortion by extreme values: The median home price better reflects what typical buyers pay.
A median is also the strip of land dividing a highway: The car jumped the median and struck oncoming traffic.
Things that partition space
- barriersThings blocking access
- stripsNarrow cut pieces
- highwayMajor road for travel
- lanesParallel traffic divisions
concrete · guardrails · turning · crossings · boulevards · traffic · islands · curbs
Average, or spiteful
- averageArithmetic mean or ordinary
- quartilesFour-part data divisions
- percentilesHundredth-fraction rank markers
- distributionAllocation across recipients
outliers · central tendency · mode · data · midpoint · sample · range · interquartile
Three-sided plane figures
- verticesCorner points of shapes
- centroidMean position of figure
- bisectorsLines creating equal halves
- sidesLateral edges or teams
midpoints · line segments · intersection · angles · geometry · altitude · perpendicular · concurrent
dividers
Things that partition space
lanes · concrete · guardrails · turning · crossings · boulevards · traffic · islands · curbs · pavement
mean
Average, or spiteful
- averageArithmetic mean or ordinary
- quartilesFour-part data divisions
- percentilesHundredth-fraction rank markers
distribution · outliers · central tendency · mode · data · midpoint · sample · range · interquartile · boxplot
triangles
Three-sided plane figures
sides · midpoints · line segments · intersection · angles · geometry · altitude · perpendicular · concurrent · proof
- geometryangles, circles, angle, shapes, lines
- Datadata points, datasets, data tables, database, databases
- public worksstreets, sidewalks, sewers, traffic lights, stop sign
- civil engineeringbridges, highways, tunnels, foundations, dams
- pedestrian safetycrosswalks, sidewalks, crossing guards, pedestrian crossings, pedestrian signals
- infrastructurehighways, road construction, railway expansion, power grid, roads
mediansmeans
Method or resources
averages · modes · standard deviations · variances · weighted averages
- new mediaInternet-era communication forms
- social mediaOnline content-sharing platforms
- media blackoutSuppression of press coverage
- global mediaCommunication reaching all nations
- media influenceNews outlets shaping views
- media presencePublic visibility across platforms
media, immediately, immediate, mediator, median, mediate, intermediate, mediating, mediated