See Median on Wiktionary
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"German lemmas",
"German masculine nouns",
"German nouns",
"German terms borrowed from English",
"German terms derived from English",
"German terms derived from Latin",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"de:Statistics"
],
"glosses": [
"median (measure of central tendency)"
],
"links": [
[
"statistics",
"statistics"
],
[
"median",
"median"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(statistics) median (measure of central tendency)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Medianwert"
},
{
"word": "Zentralwert"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"strong"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences",
"statistics"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/meˈdi̯aːn/"
},
{
"audio": "De-Median.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5e/De-Median.ogg/De-Median.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/De-Median.ogg",
"tags": [
"Germany",
"Berlin"
]
}
],
"word": "Median"
}
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