Average
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The arithmetic mean. Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode (see Usage notes below). An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Constituting or relating to the average. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category. Typical. Bad or undesirable.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To compute the arithmetic mean of. Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
Median
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having the median as its value.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The measure of central tendency of a set of values computed by ordering the values and taking the value at position ( + 1) / 2 when is odd or the arithmetic mean of the values at positions / 2 and ( / 2) + 1 when is even.The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic in the United States. This area is often covered with vegetation, but also may be covered in concrete and possess traffic accident safety devices such as guardrails.The middlemost marquee of the body that divides the subject in a symmetrical fashion, such as a median sagittal section', which divides the body symmetrically on a vertical plane, as opposed to a 'parasagittal section', which is a vertical cross section that does not divide on a parallel symmetrical alignment.
Example sentence: Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.