The difference between Median and Quantile

When used as nouns, median means a central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm, whereas quantile means one of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability.

Median is also adjective with the meaning: situated in the middle.

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  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.

  1. Quantile as a noun (statistics):

    One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability.

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