medium

Signification

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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmiː.di.əm/

Étymologie

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.