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noun
a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
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Also called medial strip, median.
Origin of median strip
First recorded in 1945–50
Words nearby median strip
media literacy, medial moraine, median, median lethal dose, median plane, median strip, mediant, mediastinum, mediate, mediated, mediation
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How to use median strip in a sentence
Hair thickly developed on chest and abdomen, with median strip of dense hairs on the latter.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India|Edgar ThurstonHair shaved on top, back and sides of head, and in median strip from vertex to forehead.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India|Edgar ThurstonHair shaved on top and sides of head, and in median strip from vertex to forehead.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India|Edgar ThurstonHair brought forward in fringe over forehead on either side of median strip, and hanging down back of neck.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India|Edgar Thurston
British Dictionary definitions for median strip
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