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mediants

mediants is the plural of mediant.

Meaning of mediant

Noun

mediant (plural mediants)

  1. The third degree of the diatonic scale.
  2. A rational number whose numerator is the sum of the numerators of two other given rational numbers and whose denominator is the sum of the denominators of those same two other rational numbers.
    • For any tangent pair of Ford circles corresponding to rational numbers r and s, the Ford circle tangent to both of them corresponds to the rational number which is the mediant of r and s.

Questions about mediants

What is mediants the plural of?
Mediants is the plural of mediant.

Words near mediants in the dictionary

  1. medianoches
  2. medianoscopies
  3. medianoscopy
  4. medians
  5. mediant
  6. mediants
  7. mediapeople
  8. mediaperson
  9. mediapersons
  10. mediaries
  11. mediary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mediants (page history and authors); mediant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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