mediant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mediant	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mediant n (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mediant \Me"di*ant\, n. [L. medians, p. p. of mediare to halve: cf. It. mediante, F. m[82]diante.] (Mus.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.