Medial

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Medial \Me"di*al\ (m[=e]"d[i^]*al), a. [L. medialis, fr. medius
     middle: cf. F. m['e]dial. See {Middle}.]
     Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial
     alligation.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Medial \Me"di*al\, n. (Phonetics)
     See 2d {Media}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Media \Me"di*a\, n.; pl. {Mediae} (-[=e]). [NL., fr. L. medius
     middle.]
     1. (Phonetics) One of the sonant mutes [beta], [delta],
        [gamma] (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in
        other languages, so named as intermediate between the
        tenues, [pi], [tau], [kappa] (p, t, k), and the aspiratae
        (aspirates) [phi], [theta], [chi] (ph or f, th, ch). Also
        called {middle mute}, or {medial}, and sometimes {soft
        mute}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  medial
       adj 1: dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: {median}]
       2: relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
          [syn: {median}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "medial":
     amidships, average, banal, center, centermost, central, common,
     core, equatorial, equidistant, fair, fairish, halfway, indifferent,
     intercurrent, interior, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate,
     intervenient, intervening, mean, median, mediocre, mediterranean,
     medium, mesial, mesne, mezzo, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road,
     middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, moderate,
     normal, nuclear, ordinary, routine, standard, usual