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Third degree of a musical scale
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mediant
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mediant \Me"di*ant\, n. [L. medians, p. p. of mediare to halve: cf. It. mediante, F. m['e]diante.] (Mus.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) The third degree of the diatonic scale. 2 (context mathematics English) A rational number whose numerator is the sum of the numerators of two other given rational numbers and whose denominator is the sum of the denominators ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
For mediant in music, see mediant . "Mediant" should not be confused with median . In mathematics , the mediant of two fractions $$\frac {a} {c} \text{ and } \frac {b} {d}$$ is $$\frac {a + b} {c + d}.$$ that is to say, the numerator and denominator of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"third note of the diatonic scale," 1753, from Italian mediante , from Late Latin mediantem (nominative medians ) "dividing in the middle," present participle of mediare "to be in the middle" (see medial (adj.)). So called from being midway between the ...
Usage examples of mediant.
There were rumors of boards vastly larger in some of the towns and ancient sanctuaries of the Mediant Coast.
The boy was going to have to shuck his posh, Mediant Coast accent and learn man-dialect, real quick.
Used to be some of the cities along the Mediant had whole quarters devoted to Yeown enclaves, surrounded by Getta walls.
So it was the other woman who answered in a prim, Mediant Coast accent.
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