Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to a mean or average.

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In or near the middle; not at either end.

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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial , or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

(lb) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the midline.

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# (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.

(lb) Closer to the addressee.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}