medium.
The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
Meaning & usage
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.
Cable TV is an inexpensive advertising medium.
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).
Acrylics, oils, charcoal, and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.
The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
Someone who conveys information from the spirit world.
A middle place or degree.
a happy medium
An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
Anything of a middle rank or position.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.
One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a large but larger than a small.
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).
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.
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).
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.
To a medium extent.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.
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