MEDIANLY

Etymology

Adverb

medianly (comparative more medianly, superlative most medianly)

In a median direction

Anagrams

• lymnaeid, maidenly

Source: Wiktionary


MEDIAN

Me"di*an, a. Etym: [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See Medial.]

1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. (a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body. (b) (Geom.) The line drawn from an angle of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side; any line having the nature of a diameter.

– Median plane (Anat.), the mesial plane.

– Median point (Geom.), the point where the three median lines of a triangle mutually intersect.

Me"di*an, n. (Geom.)

Definition: A median line or point.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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