The difference between Hexadecile and Median

When used as nouns, hexadecile means any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into sixteen equally numerous subsets, 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, hexadecile means of or relating to a hexadecile, whereas median means situated in the middle.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hexadecile and Median

  1. Hexadecile as a noun (statistics):

    Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into sixteen equally numerous subsets; a subset thus obtained.

  2. Hexadecile as a noun (astrology, obsolete):

    The aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 22.5 (that is, 360 divided by 16) as they appear to an observer on earth.

  1. Hexadecile as an adjective (statistics):

    Of or relating to a hexadecile.

  2. Hexadecile as an adjective (astrology, obsolete):

    Of or denoting a hexadecile aspect.

  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.

Compare words:

Compare with synonyms and related words: