mediant
英 ['miːdɪənt]
美['midɪənt]
- n. 中音；[数] 中间数
英英释义
- 1. (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant
英文词源
- mediant (n.)
- "third note of the diatonic scale," 1753, from Italian mediante, from Late Latin mediantem (nominative medians) "dividing in the middle," present participle of mediare "to be in the middle" (see medial (adj.)). So called from being midway between the tonic and the dominant.