medium

Meanings

Plural: media, mediums

Noun

• a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
• the surrounding environment
  • "fish require an aqueous medium"
• an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
• (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
• a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
• (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
• an intervening substance through which something is achieved
  • "the dissolving medium is called a solvent"
• a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position
  • "a happy medium"
• someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
  • "he consulted several mediums"
• (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
• an occupation for which you are especially well suited
• The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
• The materials or empty space through which signals, waves, or forces pass.
• A format for communicating or presenting information.
• A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro.
• A substance, structure, or environment in which living organisms subsist, grow or are cultured.
• A means, channel, agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieved.
• The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
• A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
• A means of expression, in the arts, such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc).
• The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
• Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
• A middle place or degree.
• An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
• Anything of a middle rank or position.
• One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
• An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
• One who fits an item of that size.
• A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).

Adjective Satellite

• around the middle of a scale of evaluation
  • "medium bombers"
• (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside

Adj

• Arithmetically average.
• Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
• Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
• That is medium (the manufactured size).

Adv

• To a medium extent.

Synonyms

average, culture medium, intermediate, M, mass medium, mediumly, metier, sensitive, spiritualist

Related Words

mean, median, mediate, mediation, mediator, mediocre, mediocrity

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