median vs secondary

median

noun
  • A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side. 

  • A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. 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. 

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

adj
  • Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something). 

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

  • Having the median as its value. 

secondary

noun
  • A secondary circle. 

  • One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy. 

  • A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return. 

  • The defensive backs. 

  • An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar. 

  • Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird. 

  • A satellite. 

  • An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation. 

  • The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary. 

  • A secondary school. 

  • Anything secondary or of lesser importance. 

adj
  • Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass. 

  • Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals 

  • Developed by pressure or other causes. 

  • Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease. 

  • Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18. 

  • Of less than primary importance. 

  • Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body 

  • Representing a reversion to an ancestral state. 

  • Formed by mixing primary colors. 

  • Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc. 

  • Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird. 

  • Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials. 

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