Medial may refer to:
Mathematics
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Medial magma
In abstract algebra, a medial magma or medial groupoid is a magma or groupoid (that is, a set with a binary operation) which satisfies the identity
:(x \cdot y) \cdot (u \cdot v) = (x \cdot u) \cdot (y \cdot v), or more simply xy\cdot uv = xu\ ...
, a mathematical identity in algebra
Geometry
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Medial axis, in geometry the set of all points having more than one closest point on an object's boundary
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Medial graph, another graph that represents the adjacencies between edges in the faces of a plane graph
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Medial triangle
In Euclidean geometry, the medial triangle or midpoint triangle of a triangle is the triangle with vertices at the midpoints of the triangle's sides . It is the case of the midpoint polygon of a polygon with sides. The medial triangle is no ...
, the triangle whose vertices lie at the midpoints of an enclosing triangle's sides
* Polyhedra:
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Medial deltoidal hexecontahedron
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Medial disdyakis triacontahedron
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Medial hexagonal hexecontahedron
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Medial icosacronic hexecontahedron
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Medial inverted pentagonal hexecontahedron
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Medial pentagonal hexecontahedron
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Medial rhombic triacontahedron
Linguistics
* A medial sound or letter is one that is found in the middle of a larger unit (like a word)
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Syllable medial
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "bu ...
, a segment located between the onset and the rime of a syllable
* In the older literature, a term for the
voiced stops (like ''b'', ''d'', ''g'')
* Medial or second person
demonstrative, a demonstrative indicating things near the addressee
Anatomy
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Medial (anatomy)
Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position prov ...
, term of location meaning 'towards the centre'
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Medial ligament (disambiguation), term used for various ligaments toward the midline of the human body
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Medial rotation, rotation toward the centre of the body
See also
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Medial border (disambiguation)
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Medial plantar (disambiguation)
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Medial wall (disambiguation)
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Median (disambiguation)
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Medial capitals
Camel case (sometimes stylized as camelCase or CamelCase, also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation. The format indicates the separation of words with a single c ...
or CamelCase, use of capital letters in the middle of a compound word or abbreviation
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Mid vowel
A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned midway between an open vowel and a close vowel.
Other names for a m ...
, a vowel sound pronounced with the tongue midway between open and closed vowel positions
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Medial s
The long s , also known as the medial s or initial s, is an archaic form of the lowercase letter . It replaced the single ''s'', or one or both of the letters ''s'' in a 'double ''s sequence (e.g., "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "poſ� ...
<ſ>, a form of the letter ''s'' written in the middle of a word
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Human anatomical terms § Standard terms
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