Medial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to, situated in, or extending toward the middle; median.
  • adj. Linguistics Being a sound, syllable, or letter occurring between the initial and final positions in a word or morpheme.
  • adj. Mathematics Being or relating to an average or a mean.
  • adj. Average; ordinary.
  • n. Linguistics A voiced stop, such as (b), (d), or (g). Also called media2.
  • n. Linguistics A sound, letter, or form of a letter that is neither initial nor final.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a mean or average.
  • adj. Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.
  • n. One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
  • n. Any of various things that occur in the middle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean.
  • n. See 2d media.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the middle; situated or existing between two extremities or extremes; intermediate in situation, rank, or degree: as, the medial letters of a word; a medial mark on an insect's wing.
  • Mean: pertaining to a mean or average.
  • In modern spiritualism, pertaining to a medium or to mediumship; mediumistic: as, medial faculties; medial phenomena.
  • In zoology and anatomy, same as median and mesal.
  • In botany, same as median.
  • In modern music, a cadence, final or not, in which the next to the last chord is inverted; an inverted cadence.
  • n. In Gr. grammar, one of the mutes β, γ, δ, as if intermediate in sound between the surd mutes π, κ, τ and the aspirates φ, χ, θ. The term medial (Latin media) translates the technical Greek μέσον, sc. α%27φωνον, middle mute.
  • n. In entomology, same as median vein (which see, under median).
  • n. In geometry, same as median, 1.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. dividing an animal into right and left halves
  • adj. relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
  • Equivalent
    mesial    central   
    Antonym
    lateral   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    media   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mean    intermediate    average   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    remedial   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prefrontal    anterior    lateral    dorsal    frontal    distal    cerebellar    hypothalamic    tegmental    thalamic