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- noun The course between extremes.
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- noun A position of balance between good and evil.
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- noun the middle between extremes
- noun the proportional relation between two divisions of line or two dimension of a plane figure such that short : long :: long : (short + long)
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sionnach commented on the word golden mean
See phi.
January 22, 2008