Maximal vs Medial - What's the difference?
maximal | medial |
Largest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.
(mathematics) The element of a set with the greatest magnitude.
(mathematics) Said of an ideal of a ring or a filter of a lattice : that it is as large as it can be without being trivial (improper).
(logic) Said of a set of well-formed formulas'': that it is as large as it can be without being inconsistent; i.e. that for any well-formed formula ''φ'', the set contains either ''φ'' or ~''φ .
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.
One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
Any of various things that occur in the middle.