The difference between Median and Quintile

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 quintile means any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.

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

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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.
Median as a noun (geometry):

A joining the vertex of triangle to the of the opposing side.
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.
Median as a noun (US):

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

Median as an adjective:

Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.
Median as an adjective (anatomy, botany):

In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
Median as an adjective (statistics):

Having the median as its value.

Quintile as a noun (statistics):

Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
Quintile as a noun (by extension):

A subset thus obtained.
Quintile as a noun (astrology):

An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72)

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