medial

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
from The 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]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Medial \Me"di*al\, n. (Phonetics)
   See 2d {Media}.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
from 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
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