'Medium' definitions:
Definition of 'medium'
From: WordNet
adjective
Around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" [syn: average, intermediate, medium]
adjective
(meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside
noun
A means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
noun
The surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium"
noun
An intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
noun
(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms [syn: culture medium, medium]
noun
A liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
noun
(biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
noun
An intervening substance through which something is achieved; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent"
noun
A state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium"
noun
Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums" [syn: medium, spiritualist, sensitive]
noun
(usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public [syn: medium, mass medium]
noun
An occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier" [syn: metier, medium]
Definition of 'Medium'
From: GCIDE
- Medium \Me"di*um\, a. Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Medium'
From: GCIDE
- Medium \Me"di*um\, n.; pl. L. Media, E. Mediums. [L. medium the middle, fr. medius middle. See Mid, and cf. Medius.]
- 1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean. [1913 Webster]
- The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] (b) (Math.) See Mean. (c) (Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted. [1913 Webster]
- Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- I must bring together All these extremes; and must remove all mediums. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An average. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- A medium of six years of war, and six years of peace. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Paint.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Microbiology) A source of nutrients in which a microorganism is placed to permit its growth, cause it to produce substances, or observe its activity under defined conditions; also called culture medium or {growth medium}. The medium is usually a solution of nutrients in water, or a similar solution solidified with gelatin or agar. [PJC]
- 7. A means of transmission of news, advertising, or other messages from an information source to the public, also called a news medium, such as a newspaper or radio; used mostly in the plural form, i. e. news media or media. See 1st media[2]. [PJC]
- Circulating medium, a current medium of exchange, whether coin, bank notes, or government notes.
- Ethereal medium (Physics), the ether.
- Medium of exchange, that which is used for effecting an exchange of commodities -- money or current representatives of money. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'medium'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Charlie McCarthy,
- 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
Words containing 'Medium'
- Mediums,
- Circulating medium,
- Culture medium,
- Ethereal medium,
- Medium of exchange,
- broadcast medium,
- campanula medium,
- contrast medium,
- dispersing medium,
- dispersion medium,
- growth medium,
- happy medium,
- interplanetary medium,
- interstellar medium,
- magnetic medium,
- mass medium,
- medium frequency,
- medium steel,
- medium wave,
- news medium,
- storage medium,
- Medium-sized,
- magnetic storage medium,
- medium-dry,
- medium-large,
- medium-size,
- data-storage medium