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Intermediary vs Median - What's the difference?

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Intermediary is a related term of median.


As an adjective intermediary

is intermediate.

As a noun intermediary

is an agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree.

As a verb median is

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intermediary

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Intermediate.
  • Noun

    (intermediaries)
  • An agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree.
  • *
  • A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world
  • An arranger of a contract or other agreement who is separate from the parties to the agreement
  • One or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end.
  • A person or organisation in an intermediate position in a supply chain of goods or services
  • The intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer is the wholesaler

    median

    English

    (wikipedia median)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * , II.3:
  • Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane ?
  • * , II.5.2:
  • The Greeks prescribe the median or middle vein to be opened, and so much blood to be taken away as the patient may well spare, and the cut that is made must be wide enough.
  • (statistics) The quantity or value at the midpoint of a set of values, such that the variable is equally likely to fall above or below it; the middle value of a discrete series arranged in magnitude (or the mean of the middle two terms when there is an even number of terms).
  • (US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
  • Synonyms

    * (median strip) central reservation

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.
  • (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
  • (statistics) Having the median as its value.
  • Derived terms

    * median line * median strip

    See also

    * average * mean * mode

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