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Definition of Mean line

Mean line
Mean Mean, a. [OE. mene, OF. meiien, F. moyen, fr. L. medianus that is in the middle, fr. medius; akin to E. mid. See Mid.] 1. Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes. Being of middle age and a mean stature. --Sir. P. Sidney. 2. Intermediate in excellence of any kind. According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly. --Milton. 3. (Math.) Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day. Mean distance (of a planet from the sun) (Astron.), the average of the distances throughout one revolution of the planet, equivalent to the semi-major axis of the orbit. Mean error (Math. Phys.), the average error of a number of observations found by taking the mean value of the positive and negative errors without regard to sign. Mean-square error, or Error of the mean square (Math. Phys.), the error the square of which is the mean of the squares of all the errors; -- called also, especially by European writers, mean error. Mean line. (Crystallog.) Same as Bisectrix. Mean noon, noon as determined by mean time. Mean proportional (between two numbers) (Math.), the square root of their product. Mean sun, a fictitious sun supposed to move uniformly in the equator so as to be on the meridian each day at mean noon. Mean time, time as measured by an equable motion, as of a perfect clock, or as reckoned on the supposition that all the days of the year are of a mean or uniform length, in contradistinction from apparent time, or that actually indicated by the sun, and from sidereal time, or that measured by the stars.

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- typography, the mean line is the imaginary line at the top of the x-height. Round glyphs will tend to break (overshoot) the mean line slightly in many...
- In geometry, the mean line segment length is the average length of a line segment connecting two points chosen uniformly at random in a given shape. In...
- Line drawing may mean: Line art, a style of two-dimensional art featuring only two, unshaded, contrasting colors Line drawing algorithm, in computer graphics...
- identical with the ISO 4287:1997 standard. The standard is based on the ″M″ (mean line) system. There are many different roughness parameters in use, but Ra{\displaystyle...
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- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past...
- In mathematics, the geometric mean is a mean or average which indicates a central tendency of a finite set of real numbers by using the product of their...
- In mathematics, the mean value theorem (or Lagrange theorem) states, roughly, that for a given planar arc between two endpoints, there is at least one...
- the 00xx symmetric foils, but with the line of mean camber bent. The formula used to calculate the mean camber line is yc={mp2(2px−x2),0≤x≤p,m(1−p)2((1−2p)+2px−x2)...
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