Median in a sentence as a noun

The median swiss salary is close to 6000CHF[1].

The median programmer has jumped over far fewer hurdles than the median doctor or lawyer.

Somebody like me makes hundreds or thousands of times as much as the median American, but I don't buy hundreds or thousands of times as much stuff.

The article mentions children take antibiotics once a year on average, but the median must be very different from the mean.

Median in a sentence as an adjective

How many of these top management consultants clear $500,000?The top performers in every industry will always make a salary that is amazingly higher than the median.

Where else could you get somebody to pay you like fourteen times the median family income to hang out anywhere in the world you please and solve interesting puzzles all day?But not everybody is wired the same.

Not to detract from the insight but:Until very recently life expectancy at birth hovered between 20 and 35 years, but in the past century it has risen to 67 yearsMost of this increase has been due to a precipitous crash in infant mortality, rather than a soaring increase in the median life expectancy.

Median definitions

noun

the value below which 50% of the cases fall

adjective

relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"

See also: average

adjective

dividing an animal into right and left halves

See also: medial

adjective

relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle

See also: medial