Via \Vi"a\, n. [L. See {Way}.]
A road way.
{Via Lactea} [L.] (Anat.), the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See
{Galaxy}, 1.
{Via media} [L.] (Theol.), the middle way; -- a name applied
to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as
being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term
extreme Protestantism.
via media
n : a middle way between two extremes [syn: {compromise}]