Medium

Noun

 * 1)  The nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
 * 2)  The material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
 * 3)  A format for communicating or presenting information.
 * 4)  The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
 * 5)  A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
 * 6)  The means or channel by which an aim is achieved.
 * 7)  A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
 * 8)  Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
 * 9)  Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
 * 10)  A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.

Quotations

 * 1996: In some instances one can take advantage of differential carbohydrate fermentation capabilities of microorganisms by incorporating one or more carbohydrates in the medium along with a suitable pH indicator. Such media are called differential media (e.g., eosin methylene blue or MacConkey agar) and are commonly used to isolate enteric bacilli. — Medical Microbiology, ed. Samuel Baron, MD.

Derived terms

 * differential medium

Adjective

 * 1)  Arithmetically average.
 * 2) Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
 * 3) Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:intermediate

Related terms

 * mean
 * mediate
 * mediation
 * mediator
 * median
 * mediocre
 * mediocrity

Adjectives for Medium
congenial; diaphanous; sympathetic; fleeting; meteoric; tangible; appropriate; accurate; ethereal; desirable; suitable; pictorial; cooling; proselytizing; surrounding; reliable; graphic; inaccurate; just; ridiculous; interpreting; ambient; pulsing; circulating; supporting; favored; laborious.

Thesaurus
Charlie McCarthy, actor, agency, agent, air brush, ambiance, ambience, ambient, amidships, ancilla, appliance, approach, arbitrator, arc, arc light, architect, art paper, atmosphere, atoms, autecology, author, automatist, avenue, average, balance, banal, betwixt and between, bien cuit, bioecology, bionomics, broker, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, center, central, chalk, channel, charcoal, chromogen, climate, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, common, compromise, connection, contact, contrivance, conveyance, core, course, crayon, creator, creature, crown, dead-color, deputy, device, dimmer, distemper, distillate, distillation, distributor, doer, done, doneness, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, dull, dummy, duodecimo, dupe, dye, dyestuff, easel, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecology, ecosystem, ecstatic, eighteenmo, element, elixir, environment, equatorial, equidistant, essence, everyday, executant, executor, executrix, expedient, exterior paint, fabric, fabricator, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fence, fixative, flat coat, flat wash, floats, flood, floodlight, floor enamel, folio, footlights, foots, front, front man, gelatin, generality, gist, go-between, golden mean, ground, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway, halfway measures, handmaid, handmaiden, happy medium, heart, imperial, implement, indifferent, insipid, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intercurrent, interior, interior paint, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediation, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interpleader, intervener, intervenient, intervening, interventionist, interventor, jobber, juste-milieu, kernel, klieg light, lackluster, lay figure, lever, liaison, light plot, lights, limelight, link, long suit, maker, marquee, marrow, material, matter, maulstick, mean, means, meat, mechanism, medial, median, mediary, mediator, mediocre, mediocrity, mediterranean, medium-rare, mesial, mesne, method, metier, mezzo, mid, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle way, middle-of-the-road, middleman, middling, midland, midpoint, midships, midway, midwife, milieu, minion, ministry, mise-en-scene, mode, moderate, moderateness, moderation, modest, mouthpiece, mover, namby-pamby, necromancer, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, neutral, neutral ground, norm, normal, nub, nuclear, octavo, octodecimo, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, ombudsman, opaque color, operant, operative, operator, ordinary, organ, overcooked, overdone, oyster, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, par, passable, pastel, pawn, pencil, performer, perpetrator, pigment, pigments, pith, plaything, popular, practitioner, prime coat, prime mover, primer, priming, producer, psychic, psychographist, puppet, quarto, quintessence, respectable, road, route, routine, royal, rule, run, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, sap, scratchboard, servant, sextodecimo, siccative, sixteenmo, sketchbook, sketchpad, slave, so-so, soul, spatula, spirit, spirit rapper, spiritist, spiritualist, spokesman, spokeswoman, spot, spotlight, spray gun, stain, standard, stooge, stuff, stump, subject, substance, sum and substance, super, surroundings, synecology, tangible, technique, tedious, tempera, thinner, tie, tinction, tincture, tolerable, tool, toy, transparent color, turpentine, turps, twelvemo, undercoat, undercoating, usual, vapid, varnish, vehicle, via media, vulgar, wash, wash coat, way, well-cooked, well-done, wholesaler, wishy-washy, worker

Etymology
From medium:, neuter of medius:. Compare middle:.

Noun

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 * Hindi: माद्धयम
 * Romanian:
 * Telugu: మాధ్యమం


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 * Catalan: mitjà
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 * Catalan: mèdium
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 * Icelandic: miðilsgáfa


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (, reibai) lit. "spirit medium";  (, kuchiyose) lit. "Drawing in to Speak"
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Adjective

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 * German: mittelgroß
 * Greek: ,
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Noun

 * 1) medium

Adjective

 * 1) medium

Etymology
From medium:.

Noun

 * 1) middle, center, medium, midst
 * 2) community, public, publicity

Derived terms

 * e medio abeo
 * in medio

Noun

 * 1) a medium, a middle part in communication, a substance useful for communication (e.g. aether), a spiritual connection

Related terms

 * etermedium
 * massmedium
 * medel
 * mediaklimat
 * medial