[{"word":"median","phonetic":"/ˈmiːdɪən/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈmiːdɪən/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/median-uk.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80949537"},{"text":"/ˈmiːdi.ən/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["central reservation"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"adjective","definitions":[{"definition":"Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Having the median as its value.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/median"]}]