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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The course between extremes.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A position of balance between good and evil.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. the way of wisdom and safety between extremes; sufficiency without excess; moderation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the middle between extremes
  2. n. the proportional relation between two divisions of line or two dimension of a plane figure such that short : long :: long : (short + long)

Examples

  • “The golden mean lay somewhere between the hall-bink and the ash-pit; somewhere between Rutherford's ecstasy and Gordon's depression.”

    Samuel Rutherford

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  1. moderateness
  1. moderation
  1. proportion

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  1. mean

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