medial

5 definitions found

medial - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

  Medial \Me"di*al\, n. (Phonetics)
     See 2d Media.
     [1913 Webster]

  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
        .
        [1913 Webster]

medial - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

medial - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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