media

Meaning

1. The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
2. A voiced stop consonant.
3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
4. An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
5. Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmiː.di.ə/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.

New

medium

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.