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| me·di·al [ mdee əl ] |
adjective |
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1. in middle: situated in or toward the middle
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2. ordinary: not extreme or exceptional
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3. statistics
Same as medianadj (sense 2)
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4. zoology near median plane: near the median plane of an organism or body part
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5. linguistics in middle of language unit: occurring between the first and last positions in a word or linguistic unit morpheme
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6. phonetics central: pronounced in the middle of the mouth
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noun (plural me·di·als) |
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phonetics sound between strong and soft sound: a speech sound midway between a strong sound fortis and a soft sound lenis
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| [Late 16th century. < late Latin medialis< Latin medius "middle"] |
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  me·di·al·ly adverb |
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