Via media

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

via media
    n 1: a middle way between two extremes [syn: {compromise}, {via
         media}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Via \Vi"a\ (v[imac]"[.a] or v[=e]"[.a]), n. [L. See {Way}.]
   A road or way.
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   {Via Lactea} [L.] (Astron.), the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See
      {Galaxy}, 1.

   {Via media} [L.] (Theol.), the middle way; -- a name applied
      to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as
      being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term
      extreme Protestantism.
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