mediary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I have made several three vision glasses for my patients requiring distant, near and mediary vision with signal success.
ref: 1921, The Optical Journal and Review of Optometry - Volume 48, page 44:
text: The mediary role played by CNMs between the two systems is exemplified in that historically the “supervision and training of granny midwives [w]as the major responsibility for which the first American-trained nurse-midwives were prepared”
ref: 2005, Randell E. Balin, Trends in Midwifery Research, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Husserl pointed out that it is the mediary state between both kinds of interests, the indeterminateness and vagueness of a still only fugitive theme, which is germinal for processes of inquiry initiated by "an effort to come closer and closer to the object."
ref: 2012, R. Grathoff, The Structure of Social Inconsistencies, →ISBN:
glosses: Intermediate.
examples: text: In this last instance, simple relativity may be called mediary relativity, (a R b) where a is some medium, such as air, between the knower and the known, and b is the resultant knowledge.
ref: 1928, Harvard University, Summaries of Theses Accepted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, page 134:
text: Because language intervenes between us and reality, so to speak, categorizing reality for us, Weisgerber believes that the speakers of different languages live in different 'linguistic mediary worlds' (sprachliche Zwischenwelten).
ref: 1968, Robert L. Miller, The Linguistic Relativity Principle and Humboldtian Ethnoliguistics, →ISBN, page 54:
text: To some such an approach might seem a bit myopic in eschewing mediary constructs such as thoughts, feelings, and motivation that are assumed to be important aspects of psychological functioning, but one cogent argument is that such singularity of the model was necessary for the development of the field.
ref: 2013, Philip C. Kendall, Jan H. Slavenburg, Henk P.J.G. van Bilsen, Behavioral Approaches for Children and Adolescents, →ISBN:
glosses: Acting to cause or connect.
examples: text: This tape becomes the system mediary input tape and is in turn processed by the system.
ref: 1959, Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, page 155:
text: Many applications, however, require the use of mediary, or scratch files.
ref: 1962, NASA SP, page 26:
text: This converted data is written on the mediary output tape immediately behind the absolute program which is going to read it. In this manner, separate jobs are processed one after another and written onto the mediary output tape for later execution.
ref: 1964, F. Peter Fisher, George F. Swindle, Computer programming systems, page 564:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Storing data that is written by one process so that it can be read by another process.
examples: text: Mediary disinfection, that occurring during the course of the disease, is of great value.
ref: 1915, New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Health, Reprint Series - Issues 39-63, page 19:
text: With this disease and probably with every other disease mediary disinfection is very much more important than terminal disinfection.
ref: 1916, Wisconsin State Board of Health, Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference of Health Officers of the State of Wisconsin, page 65:
text: Concurrent or mediary disinfection is the immediate disinfection of the bodily discharges of the patient or other substances and articles which may have been contaminated by his use of them.
ref: 1927, Carl Esselstyn McCombs, City Health Administration, page 133:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: occurring during the course of a disease.
examples: text: Charles king of France by an angel a shield of blue with three fleur-de-lis of gold together with other armour: and on both these occasions the foundation and field of the arms was azure, and this was superior to the gold. Therefore it is clear that this colour is the chief of all mediary and submediary colours.
ref: 1943, Evan John Jones, Medieval Heraldry: Some Fourteenth Century Heraldic Works, page 19:
text: The colours primary in themselves are the colours white and black; the colours truly mediary are blue, gold, and red; the sub-mediary colours are green and any Similar if there are any.
ref: 2011, Carole P. Biggam, Carole A. Hough, Christian J. Kay, New Directions in Colour Studies, →ISBN, page 200:
text: In answering this dilemma, Bado assesses the colours of fourteenth-century heraldry according to their status as primary, mediary or sub-mediary; their relative honour determined by the amount of elemental mixing gone into their creation. Thus Bado's opines that white is the highest colour in terms of honour, closely followed by black -- as opposed to Bartolo's contention that black was the lowest colour. (Red and blue are superior to green (as sub-mediary) in all fourteenth-century accounts of armorial colour I have seen)
ref: 2014, K.P. Clarke, Sarah Baccianti, On Light, →ISBN, page 41:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having a primary hue (red, blue, or gold), as opposed to one that can be created by mixing colors with primary hues.
raw_tags: of color
examples: text: All is continuous, as Thirdness, generality, a temporal and mediary collusion of the values of the possible (as Firstness) and the singular (as Secondness).
ref: 1991, Floyd Merrell, Signs Becoming Signs: Our Perfusive, Pervasive Universe, page 93:
text: Thirdness can be tentatively qualified as that which brings about mediation between two other entities in such a manner that they are related to each other in the same way they are related to the third entity as a result of its mediary act.
ref: 2000, Susan Petrilli, La traduzione, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Due to the mediary role of thirdness, each of the categories can intermittently play the role of any of the other categories. Yet at a given space-time juncture, one of the three will be a first, one a second, and one a third.
ref: 2005, Paul Cobley, The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics, →ISBN, page 33:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: Defining or inferring a generalization or category of meaning.