1. (Statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; SYN. mean.
2. Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; SYN. intermediate, medium.
3. Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; SYN. ordinary.
4. Of no exceptional quality or ability; SYN. fair, mediocre, middling.
ETYM Cf. French intermédiaire.
Intermediate.
ETYM Pref. inter- + mediate: cf. French intermédiat.
Lying between two extremes in time or space or degree.
Of the stage of education and schools between elementary and secondary including middle grades centering on 5 through 7; SYN. middle.
ETYM Old Eng. mene, Old Fren. meiien, French moyen, from Latin medianus that is in the middle, from medius; akin to Eng. mid. Related to Mid.
(Homonym: mien).
1. Used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; SYN. mingy, miserly, little, small, tight.
2. (Slang) Excellent.
ETYM Latin medialis, from medius middle: cf. French médial. Related to Middle.
Dividing an animal into right and left halves; SYN. median.
ETYM Latin medianus, from medius middle. Related to Medial.
1. Relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle; SYN. medial.
2. (Statistics) Relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set); SYN. average.
Of or relating to the middle part of a range of possible values.
(Of meat) Cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside.
ETYM Old Eng. middel, as. middel; akin to Dutch middel, Old High Germ. muttil, German mittel. Related to Mid.
1. Between an earlier and a later period of time.
2. (Linguistics) Of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages.
ETYM Latin neutralis, from neuter. Related to Neuter.
1. Of no distinctive quality or characteristics or type.
2. Lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics.
3. Neither moral nor immoral; neither good nor evil, right nor wrong.
4. Not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest.
5. Lacking hue.
6. (Physics) Having no net electric charge; not electrified; SYN. electroneutral.
ETYM Latin normalis, from norma rule, pattern, carpenter's square; prob. akin to noscere to know; cf. Greek nossos well known, also, carpenter's square: cf. French normal. Related to Known, Abnormal, Enormous.
1. Conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal.
2. In accordance with scientific laws.
3. (Psychology) Being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development.
4. (Geometry) Forming a right angle.