medium

Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”). Compare middle. Cognate with Spanish medio (“middle; half; means, medium, way”).

• enPR: mē'diəm, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɪəm/

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• Rhymes: -iːdiəm

medium (plural media or mediums)

1. (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
2. (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
   • Francis Bacon

     Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.

   • Denham

     I must bring together / All these extremes; and must remove all mediums.

3. (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
4. (plural media or mediums, engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
5. (plural media or mediums, microbiology) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
   • 1996, Samuel Baron (editor), Medical Microbiology:

     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.

6. (plural media or mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
7. (plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
8. (plural mediums or media, painting) A tool used for painting or drawing.

   Acrylics, oils, charcoal, and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.

9. (plural mediums, spiritualism) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
10. (plural mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
11. (plural mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
12. (plural mediums, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
13. A middle place or degree.

    a happy medium

    • L'Estrange

      The just medium […] lies between pride and abjection.

14. (dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
    • Burke

      a medium of six years of war, and six years of peace

15. (logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.

• (microbiology, nutrient solution): differential medium

medium (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) 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.

• See also Thesaurus:intermediate

• medium wave, mediumwave

• mean
• mediate
• mediation
• mediator
• median
• mediocre
• mediocrity

medium (comparative more medium, superlative most medium)

1. to a medium extent

• mediumly

• medium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• medium in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• edimmu

From Latin medium.

• IPA^(key): /meːdiɔm/, [ˈmeːˀd̥jɔm]

medium or medie n (singular definite mediet, plural indefinite medier)

1. medium

medium (neuter medium, plural and definite singular attributive medium)

1. medium

• medium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from Latin medium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeːdiʏm/

medium n (plural media, diminutive mediumpje n)

1. means, system or instrument for fulfilling an end
   • 1967, Evert Willem Barth, Moderne logica, Van Gorcum, 138-139.

     Het is zeer aannemelijk dat sommige talen zich er beter toe lenen dan andere, als medium voor het logisch denken dienst te doen.

     It is very probable that some language are more suitable to being used as a medium for logical thinking than others are.

2. (physics) medium which a wave or force traverses
   • 2009, Douglas C. Giancoli, Natuurkunde. Deel 2: Elektriciteit, magnetism, optica en moderne fysica, (tr. by Marianne Kerkhof & Louis Rijk Vertaling, red. by Luc van Hoorebeeke & Jan Rykebusch), Pearson (4th edition), 1100.

     Ze noemden dit transparante medium de ether en gingen ervan uit dat de hele ruimte ervan doordrongen was.

     They called this transparent medium aether and assumed that all of space was completely pervaded by it.

3. (grammar) middle voice
4. (communication, media) means of communication, media outlet
5. (communication) data medium, something that contains data
6. channeler, someone who claims to access the dead

• geluidsmedium
• lichtmedium
• massamedium
• mediopassief
• taalmedium

Borrowed from English medium, from Latin medium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmidiʏm/

medium n (plural mediums)

1. something of medium size

medium (not comparable)

1. of medium size
2. (of meat) medium rare

• (medium rare): halfgaar

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.um/, [ˈmɛ.di.ʊ̃]

medium

1. inflection of medius:
   1. masculine accusative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular

medium n (genitive mediī or medī); second declension

1. middle, center, medium, midst
2. community, public, publicity

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• e medio abeo
• in medio

medium

1. accusative singular of medius
2. genitive singular of medius

• medium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    
  • (ambiguous) the middle ages: media quae vocatur aetas
    
  • (ambiguous) manhood: aetas constans, media, firmata, corroborata (not virilis)
    
  • (ambiguous) to remove a person: e or de medio tollere
    
  • (ambiguous) to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave a thing undecided: aliquid in medio, in dubio relinquere (Cael. 20. 48)
    
  • (ambiguous) elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
    
  • (ambiguous) to bring a subject forward into discussion: in medium proferre aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to publish, make public: in medio ponere (proponere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to break off in the middle of the conversation: medium sermonem abrumpere (Verg. Aen. 4. 388)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be neutral: medium esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be neutral: medium se gerere
    
  • (ambiguous) the centre of the marching column: agmen medium (Liv. 10. 41)
    
  • (ambiguous) the centre: media acies
    
  • (ambiguous) let us leave that undecided: hoc in medio relinquamus
    

Borrowed from Latin medium

medium n (definite singular mediet, indefinite plural medier, definite plural media or mediene)

1. a medium (also in spiritualism)

• kjølemedium
• massemedium

• medie-

• “medium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin medium.

medium n (definite singular mediet, indefinite plural medium, definite plural media)

1. a medium (also in spiritualism)

• kjølemedium
• massemedium

• medie-

• “medium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin medium.

medium n

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

• etermedium
• massmedium
• medel
• mediaklimat
• medial