MEDIALとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈmiː.di.əl/
• 韻: -iːdiəl

形容詞

medial (comparative more medial, superlative most medial)

1. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a mean or average.

   medial allegation

2. Situated in or near the middle; not at either end.
   1. (anatomy, zootomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.

      Coordinate terms: mesial, median

      Antonym: lateral

      The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.

      • 2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN‎:

        Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.

   2. (anatomy) Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media.

      Mönckeberg medial sclerosis

   3. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
   4. (phonetics, linguistics) (of a speech sound, or a character or sequence thereof) In the middle of a word.
   5. (phonetics) (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
      • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

        Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

   6. (linguistics) Closer to the addressee.

等位語

派生語

関連する語

• median
• mesial (see explanation of overlap)

名詞

medial (plural medials)

1. Any of various things that occur in the middle.
   1. One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.

参照

• “medial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “medial”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• Imelda, mailed, Deilam, Dameli, maelid