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me⋅di⋅ant

[mee-dee-uhnt]
–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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me·di·ant   (mē'dē-ənt)   
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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