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–noun

the third degree of a major or minor musical scale.

[Origin: 1720–30; < It mediante < LL mediant- (s. of mediāns), prp. of mediāre to be in the middle. See medium, -ant

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n. The third tone in a diatonic musical scale, determining the major or minor quality of the tonic chord.

[Italian mediante, from Late Latin mediāns, mediant-, present participle of mediāre, to be in the middle, from Latin medius, middle; see medium.]

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mediant
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(music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant

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Me"di*ant\, n. [L. medians, p. p. of mediare to halve: cf. It. mediante, F. m['e]diante.] (Mus.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.

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