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What's The Definition Of Medium?
[n] an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier"
[n] an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication [n] a means or instrumentality for communicating [n] the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium" [n] someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums" [n] a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium" [n] an intervening substance through which something is achieved; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent" [n] (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms [n] (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed [n] a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter [adj] (of meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside [adj] around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers" Synonyms | Synonyms for Medium: average | cooked | culture medium | intermediate | metier | moderate | spiritualist Related Terms | Find terms related to Medium: 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 | middleman | middle-of-the-road | 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 See Also | aether | agar | air | airwave | album | business | celluloid | cinema | communicating | communication | contrast material | contrast medium | dissolvent | dissolver | dissolving agent | environment | environs | ether | film | job | line | line of work | liquid | matter | means | megalp | megilp | nutrient agar | occupation | paper | print media | psychic | record album | resolvent | solvent | state | substance | surround | surroundings | telecommunication | vehicle Medium In Webster's Dictionary \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.
The just medium . . . lies between pride and
abjection. --L'Estrange.
(b) (Math.) See {Mean}.
(c) (Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that
by which the extremes are brought into connection.
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.
Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause
a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
--Bacon.
I must bring together All these extremes; and must
remove all mediums. --Denham.
3. An average. [R.]
A medium of six years of war, and six years of
peace. --Burke.
4. A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain
sizes. See {Paper}.
5. (Paint.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are
ground and prepared for application.
{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.
\Me"di*um\, a. Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength. |
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