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\cdo ...
, a mathematical identity in algebra
Geometry
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Medial axis
The medial axis of an object is the set of all points having more than one closest point on the object's boundary. Originally referred to as the topological skeleton, it was introduced in 1967 by Harry Blum as a tool for biological shape recogn ...
, in geometry the set of all points having more than one closest point on an object's boundary
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Medial graph
In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, the medial graph of plane graph ''G'' is another graph ''M(G)'' that represents the adjacencies between edges in the faces of ''G''. Medial graphs were introduced in 1922 by Ernst Steinitz to study ...
, another graph that represents the adjacencies between edges in the faces of a plane graph
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Medial triangle, the triangle whose vertices lie at the midpoints of an enclosing triangle's sides
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Medial deltoidal hexecontahedron
In geometry, the medial deltoidal hexecontahedron is a nonconvex Isohedral figure, isohedral polyhedron. It is the Dual polyhedron, dual of the rhombidodecadodecahedron. Its 60 intersecting quadrilateral faces are Kite (geometry), kites.
Propor ...
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Medial disdyakis triacontahedron
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Medial hexagonal hexecontahedron
In geometry, the medial hexagonal hexecontahedron (or midly dentoid ditriacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the uniform snub icosidodecadodecahedron.
Proportions
The faces of the medial hexagonal hexecontahedr ...
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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
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In geometry, the medial rhombic triacontahedron (or midly rhombic triacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is a stellation of the rhombic triacontahedron, and can also be called small stellated triacontahedron. Its dual ...
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
Demonstratives (abbreviated ) are words, such as ''this'' and ''that'', used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others. They are typically deictic; their meaning depending on a particular frame ...
, 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 pro ...
, term of location meaning 'towards the centre'
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Medial ligament (disambiguation) Medial ligament might refer to:
* Medial arcuate ligament, in one's diaphragm
* Medial collateral ligament, one of the four major ligaments of the knee
* Medial palpebral ligament, near one's nose
* Medial pubovesical ligament, from one's bladder t ...
, term used for various ligaments toward the midline of the human body
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Medial rotation
Motion, the process of movement, is described using specific anatomical terms. Motion includes movement of organs, joints, limbs, and specific sections of the body. The terminology used describes this motion according to its direction relative ...
, rotation toward the centre of the body
See also
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Medial border (disambiguation) Medial border may refer to:
* Medial border of scapula
* Medial border of kidney, the side of the kidney where the renal hilum
The renal hilum (Latin: ''hilum renale'') or renal pedicle is the hilum of the kidney, that is, its recessed central fis ...
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Medial plantar (disambiguation) Medial plantar may refer to:
* Medial plantar nerve
* Medial plantar artery
The medial plantar artery (internal plantar artery), much smaller than the lateral plantar artery, passes forward along the medial side of the foot.
It is at first situat ...
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Medial wall (disambiguation) Medial wall can refer to:
* Nasal septum
The nasal septum () separates the left and right airways of the Human nose, nasal cavity, dividing the two nostrils.
It is Depression (kinesiology), depressed by the depressor septi nasi muscle.
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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 ...
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 mid ...
, 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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