"meso-" meaning in English

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Prefix

Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”). Doublet of mid- and medio-. Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|μέσος||middle}} Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”), {{dbt|en|mid-|medio-}} Doublet of mid- and medio- Head templates: {{head|en|prefix|head=|sort=}} meso-, {{en-prefix}} meso-
  1. Middle or centre in location/position. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:middle
  2. Between a macro- scale and micro- scale in scope or analysis. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:mesoscale
  3. Medium in size. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:medium
  4. Between. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:between
  5. Intermediate between two properties or characteristics. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:intermediate
  6. (anatomy) Referring to the mesentery. Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:mesentery Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  7. (anatomy) Mesial in location, position, or direction: towards the midline of the body. Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:mesial Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  8. Normal, average, or typical. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:normal
  9. (dentistry) The forward side of a tooth. Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Dentistry
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:forward Topics: dentistry, medicine, sciences
  10. The middle of a time period, or medium in duration. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:midtime
  11. Quasi or partial. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:quasi
  12. Moderate, medium in quantity. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:moderate Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 2 0 0 9 10 3 2 2 23 8 30 9
  13. (chemistry) Designating an achiral member of a group of diastereoisomers that has at least one chiral member. Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): Chemistry
    Sense id: en-meso--en-prefix-en:chirality Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mid- [broadly], medio- (english: used with words of Latin origin.) [middle], mes- (alt: prevocalic) Related terms: centro- (english: central), centri- (english: central), especially of mass nouns Translations (prefix meaning middle): وَسْط (wasṭ) (Arabic), وَسْطِيّ (wasṭiyy) (Arabic), meso- (Catalan), méso- (French), meso- (Galician), meso- (German), μεσο- (meso-) (Greek), méisi- (Irish), meso- (Italian), meso- (Portuguese), meso- (Spanish)
Derived forms: mesaraic, mesaxonic, mesoaccumbal, Mesoamerica, mesoamygdala, mesoaxial, mesoblast, mesobranchial, mesobuccal, mesocardiac, mesocarp, mesocompound, mesocoracoid, mesocoxa, mesocranial, mesocuneiform, mesofemur, mesofrontal, mesofurca, mesogastric, mesohepatectomy, mesohypothalamic, mesojejunal, mesolabial, mesoleg, mesolimbic, mesolingual, mesometapleural, mesomphalic, mesopallium, mesoscaphe, Mesoamerican, mesodiencephalic, mesoectodermal, mesoanalysis, mesoclimate, mesocluster, mesocosm, mesocrystalline, mesocyclone, mesoeconomic, mesoeconomics, mesoevolution, mesofluidics, mesofossil, mesoglass, mesolevel, mesology, mesometeorology, mesonet, mesonetwork, brachymesophalangia, mesobrowser, mesocavern, mesocellular, mesocephalic, mesoconsumer, mesocranic, mesocycle, mesodont, mesoecosystem, mesofauna, mesofaunal, mesogranule, mesohabitat, mesoherbivore, mesomammal, mesomere, mesarthral, mesoband, mesochannel, mesoclisis, mesoclitic, mesocortex, mesocotyl, mesocuticle, mesoderm, mesohyl, mesolayer, mesolimnion, mesopause, mesopelagic, mesocline, mesocratic, mesogen, mesognathous, mesohydrophyte, mesolecithal, mesolect, mesolite, mesophalanx, mesophanerophyte, mesenteron, mesoappendix, mesocaecum, mesocolic, mesocolon, mesocolonic, mesoduodenal, mesoduodenum, mesogastrium, mesoanterior, mesobasal, mesocaudad, mesodorsally, mesokinesis, mesomedial, meson, mesonasal, mesochronic, mesocracy, mesocrystal, mesofacial, mesokurtic, mesokurtosis, mesocone, mesoconid, mesoflexid, mesoflexus, mesoloph, mesolophid, mesocenozoic, Mesolithic, mesonephros, mesobenthic, mesobilirubin, mesocarnivore, mesoparasite, mesoendemic, mesoeutrophic, mesohaline, mesoglea, mesomorph, Mesopotamia, mesoscopic, mesothelioma, mesothelium Disambiguation of 'prefix meaning middle': 21 5 0 2 13 4 3 9 3 19 1 15 4

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        {
          "text": "mesoeconomics is economics on a scale between that of microeconomics and macroeconomics, mesoevolution is evolutionary change on a time-scale intermediate between microevolution and macroevolution, mesometeorology is the study of atmospheric phenomena on a larger scale than micrometeorology",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
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        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "mesobrowser is a medium-sized browser (animal that browses, mesocavern is a medium-sized cave, cavern or similar void, mesohabitat is a medium-sized habitat",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Medium in size."
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          "medium"
        ]
      ],
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        "morpheme"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "mesochannel is a channel, between two others, used as a heat exchanger, mesoclitic is a clitic inserted inside a word (such as between a stem and a suffix), mesolayer is a layer that exists between others",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Between."
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      "links": [
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          "Between",
          "between"
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      ],
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        "morpheme"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "mesocratic is having a more or less even mixture of light and dark constituents, mesognathous is having the jaws between prognathous and orthognathous, mesohydrophyte is any plant whose tolerance to moisture is intermediate between that of a mesophyte and a hydrophyte.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
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          "intermediate"
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      "categories": [
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        {
          "text": "mesoappendix is part of the mesentery found near the appendix and the terminal ileum, mesoduodenum is the mesentery of the duodenum, mesogastrium is the part of the embryonic mesentery that includes the stomach",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "(anatomy) Referring to the mesentery."
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        "morpheme"
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        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
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        "English terms with usage examples",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "mesoanterior is mesial and anterior, mesomedial is mesial and medial, meson is the mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Mesial in location, position, or direction: towards the midline of the body."
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        "(anatomy) Mesial in location, position, or direction: towards the midline of the body."
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        "morpheme"
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        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "mesochronic is based upon time averages of observed phenomena, mesocrystal is an ordered aggregate of similarly-sized crystals, mesokurtosis is the property of having kurtosis equal to that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having zero excess kurtosis",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Normal, average, or typical."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "mesocone is a conule in the median mure where the mesoloph is attached to it, mesoflexus is a flexus between the mesoloph and the paracone, mesoloph is a crest in front of the metaflexus, connected to the median mure",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The forward side of a tooth."
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        [
          "dentistry",
          "dentistry"
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        [
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          "forward"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dentistry) The forward side of a tooth."
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        "morpheme"
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        "medicine",
        "sciences"
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "mesocenozoic is relating to the middle of the Cenozoic era, mesocratic is relating to mesocracy, or rule by the middle class, Mesolithic is of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric period that lasted between 10000 and 3000 BC",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The middle of a time period, or medium in duration."
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        "morpheme"
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "mesocarnivore is any animal whose diet consists of 30–70% meat, mesobilirubin is a reduced form of bilirubin that is the primary pigment of bile acid, mesoparasite is a parasitic copepod that lives partly embedded in its host",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Quasi or partial."
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          "partial"
        ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "mesoendemic is having some transmission in an area, mesoeutrophic is having a medium amount of nutrients and minerals, mesohaline is moderately salty; brackish",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Moderate, medium in quantity."
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          "moderate"
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          "quantity"
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Chemistry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "meso-tartaric acid, mesolytic",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "Designating an achiral member of a group of diastereoisomers that has at least one chiral member."
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        [
          "chemistry",
          "chemistry"
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        [
          "achiral",
          "achiral"
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          "diastereoisomer",
          "diastereoisomer"
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        [
          "chiral",
          "chiral"
        ]
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        "(chemistry) Designating an achiral member of a group of diastereoisomers that has at least one chiral member."
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        "en:chirality"
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        "morpheme"
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        "chemistry",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ],
      "word": "mid-"
    },
    {
      "english": "used with words of Latin origin.",
      "tags": [
        "middle"
      ],
      "word": "medio-"
    },
    {
      "alt": "prevocalic",
      "word": "mes-"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "wasṭ",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "وَسْط"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "wasṭiyy",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "وَسْطِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "meso-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "méso-"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "meso-"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "meso-"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "meso-",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "μεσο-"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "méisi-"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "meso-"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "meso-"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "prefix meaning middle",
      "word": "meso-"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meso-"
}

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