The difference between Average and Median

When used as nouns, average means the arithmetic mean, whereas median means a central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.

When used as adjectives, average means constituting or relating to the average, whereas median means situated in the middle.

Average is also verb with the meaning: to compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

check bellow for the other definitions of Average and Median

  1. Average as a noun (mathematics):

    The arithmetic mean.

    Examples:

    "The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18."

  2. Average as a noun (statistics):

    Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

  3. Average as a noun (legal, marine):

    Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

  4. Average as a noun:

    Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

  5. Average as a noun:

    Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

  6. Average as a noun (sports):

    An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

    Examples:

    "batting average'"

  7. Average as a noun (UK, in the plural):

    In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

  1. Average as an adjective (not comparable):

    Constituting or relating to the average.

    Examples:

    "The average age of the participants was 18.5."

  2. Average as an adjective:

    Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

    Examples:

    "I soon found I was only an average chess player."

  3. Average as an adjective:

    Typical.

    Examples:

    "The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product."

  4. Average as an adjective (informal):

    Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

  1. Average as a verb (transitive):

    To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

    Examples:

    "If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18."

  2. Average as a verb (transitive):

    Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

    Examples:

    "The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C."

    "I averaged 75% in my examinations this year."

  3. Average as a verb (transitive):

    To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

    Examples:

    "to average a loss"

  4. Average as a verb (intransitive):

    To be, generally or on average.

  1. Average as a noun (UK, legal, obsolete):

    The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

  1. Median as a noun (anatomy, now, _, rare):

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

  2. Median as a noun (geometry):

    A joining the vertex of triangle to the of the opposing side.

  3. Median as a noun (statistics):

    In statistics and probability theory, the median is 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.

  4. Median as a noun (US):

    The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.

  1. Median as an adjective:

    Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.

  2. Median as an adjective (anatomy, botany):

    In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.

  3. Median as an adjective (statistics):

    Having the median as its value.

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