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Medial

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Medial may refer to:

Mathematics

  • Medial magma, a mathematical identity in algebra

Geometry

  • Medial axis, in geometry the set of all points having more than one closest point on an object's boundary
  • Medial graph, another graph that represents the adjacencies between edges in the faces of a plane graph
  • Medial triangle, the triangle whose vertices lie at the midpoints of an enclosing triangle's sides
  • Polyhedra:
    • Medial deltoidal hexecontahedron
    • Medial disdyakis triacontahedron
    • Medial hexagonal hexecontahedron
    • Medial icosacronic hexecontahedron
    • Medial inverted pentagonal hexecontahedron
    • Medial pentagonal hexecontahedron
    • Medial rhombic triacontahedron

Linguistics

  • A medial sound or letter is one that is found in the middle of a larger unit (like a word)
    • Syllable medial, 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

  • Medial (anatomy), term of location meaning 'towards the centre'
  • Medial ligament (disambiguation), term used for various ligaments toward the midline of the human body
  • Medial rotation, rotation toward the centre of the body

See also

  • Medial border (disambiguation)
  • Medial plantar (disambiguation)
  • Medial wall (disambiguation)
  • Median (disambiguation)
  • Medial capitals or CamelCase, use of capital letters in the middle of a compound word or abbreviation
  • Mid vowel, a vowel sound pronounced with the tongue midway between open and closed vowel positions
  • Medial s <ſ>, a form of the letter s written in the middle of a word
  • Human anatomical terms § Standard terms
  • All pages with titles beginning with Medial
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