medium

Meaning

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. (usually) 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. (countable) 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. (countable) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
11. (countable) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
12. (countable) A middle place or degree.
13. (countable, dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
14. Anything of a middle rank or position.

Adj

1. (not-comparable, noun-from-verb, obsolete) Arithmetically average.
2. (not-comparable, noun-from-verb) Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
3. (not-comparable, noun-from-verb) 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. (especially, not-comparable, noun-from-verb) That is medium (the manufactured size).

Adv

To a medium extent.

Synonyms

average

middle

mean

means

moderate

intermediate

media

middling

environment

intermediary

vehicle

channel

median

psychic

way

mediocre

tool

agency

spiritualist

ambiance

ordinary

milieu

culture medium

mid

temperate

sensitive

instrument

sorceress

method

mode

centre

medial

center

mediator

device

storage medium

surroundings

resource

regular

passable

moderation

inside

common

in-between

midst

implement

metier

mediocrity

med

carrier

Translations

medio

milieu

Medium

moyen

medio

🖕

medium

médium

mezzo

medi

mediano

mitjà

média

μέσο

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmiː.di.əm/

Etymology

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 meson.

Sentences

They were similar to what other countries called medium tanks .

Houma is also rated as a medium size city .