Medium

Quick meaning: Medium is a noun meaning The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.

Meaning

The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.

More Meanings

1. The materials or empty space through which signals, waves, or forces pass.
2. A format for communicating or presenting information.
3. (microbiology) A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro.
4. (biology, horticulture, etc.) A substance, structure, or environment in which living organisms subsist, grow or are cultured.
5. A means, channel, agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieved.
6. (engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
7. (countable, plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.

Example Sentences

Cable TV is an inexpensive advertising medium.

VVhether any other Liquours, being made Mediums, cauſe a Diuerſity of Sound from Water, it may bee tried: […]

The density of the living medium of fishes exerts upon them a mechanical influence; they are, so to say, balanced in water, free to proceed in all planes of direction.

He’s old and jealous, apt for ſuſpitions, ’gainſt which Tyrants ears Are never clos’d. The Prince is young, Fierce, and ambitious, I muſt bring together All theſe extreams, and then remove all Mediums, That each may be the others object.

Word Forms

• media
• mediums

Synonyms for medium

Depending on context, synonyms include mediumly, M, moderate, intermediate, average, metier.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intermediate, metier, average, spiritualist, moderate, cooked.

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