Mediant vs Median - What's the difference?
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(music) The third degree of the diatonic scale.
(mathematics) A rational number whose numerator is the sum of the numerators of two other given rational numbers and whose denominator is the sum of the denominators of those same two other rational numbers.
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(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.
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.
As nouns the difference between mediant and median
is that mediant is the third degree of the diatonic scale while 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.mediant
English
(wikipedia mediant)Noun
(en noun)- For any tangent pair of Ford circles corresponding to rational numbers r'' and ''s'', the Ford circle tangent to both of them corresponds to the rational number which is the mediant of ''r'' and ''s .
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English
(wikipedia median)Noun
(en noun)- Why is not our jugular or throat-veine as much at our command as the mediane ?
- 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.