medium

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
2. The materials or empty space through which signals, waves, or forces pass.
3. A format for communicating or presenting information.
4. A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro.
5. A substance, structure, or environment in which living organisms subsist, grow or are cultured.
6. A means, channel, agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieved.
7. The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
8. A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
9. A means of expression, in the arts, such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc).
10. The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
11. Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
12. A middle place or degree.
13. An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
14. Anything of a middle rank or position.

Adj

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.
4. That is medium (the manufactured size).

Adv

To a medium extent.

Concepts

milieu

moyen

médium

média

intermédiaire

environnement

véhicule

médiateur

vecteur

commun

médiocre

ordinaire

entier

intérieur

pendant

agent

jeune

morceau

petit

tambour moyen

mass media

ajusté

devin

aide

ressource

moyenne

medium

mass-média

médias

moelleux

milieu de culture

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmiː.di.əm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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 mediate.

Phrases

They were similar to what other countries called medium tanks .

Ils étaient similaires à ce que les autres pays appelaient des réservoirs moyens.

Houma is also rated as a medium size city .

Houma est également évaluée comme une ville de taille moyenne.