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Median vs Mena - What's the difference?

median | mena |

As a noun median

is a central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.

As an adjective median

is situated in the middle; central, intermediate.

As an initialism MENA is

initialism of w:Middle East News Agency|Middle East News Agency a Cairo-based news agency, established 1955, nationalized and affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Information in 1960.

As a proper noun Mena is

a city in Arkansas.

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

    Related terms

    * mean * mediate * mediation * mediator * medium * mediocre * mediocrity

    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

    Anagrams

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    mena

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (en-initialism)
  • (politics)

    • Initialism

    (Initialism) (en-initialism) (MENA)
  • (politics)
  • * 2006 "The MENA region is anything but stable today" (A. H. Cordesman, K. R. Al-Rodhan, The Changing Dynamics of Energy in the Middle East, ISBN 9780275992620, p. 65)

    • Usage notes

    In use since the 1970s by the IPPF.[http://books.google.com/books?id=BPI9AAAAYAAJ&q=%22MENA+region%22&dq=%22MENA+region%22&hl=en&ei=uGViTZ64LJHo4AbHuO2aCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwATgK] Used by the World Bank / IMF from about 1980.[http://books.google.com/books?id=5OWwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22MENA+region%22&dq=%22MENA+region%22&hl=en&ei=TWdiTaXjIJ6g4QbluZWrCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA] Often as "MENA Region" or "MENA region". The MENAFATF (or MENA FATF) was established in 2004.

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