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. 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

medium

average

middle

mean

means

moderate

intermediate

media

environment

intermediary

middling

way

channel

vehicle

median

tool

mediocre

psychic

ambiance

milieu

agency

ordinary

spiritualist

mid

temperate

culture medium

centre

method

mode

sorceress

instrument

mediator

medial

sensitive

center

inside

midst

device

mediocrity

carrier

shrine maiden

common

a form of communication

in-between

surroundings

agent

metier

mass medium

M

instrumentality

regular

med

moderation

passable

transmitter

storage medium

resource

implement

of medium age

of medium size

institution

policy

procedure

process

scheme

system

female fortuneteller

diviner

virgin consecrated to a deity

half-cooked

half-done

conjuror

invoker

normal

factor

go-between

negotiator

peacemaker

so-so

atmosphere

mezzo

fair

accomplice

occasion

interposition

intervention

intermediation

intervening

oracle

intermediator

medium-dated gilt

m

behalf

part

side

enviroment

adolescent

young

small

spirit rapper

unremarkable

half baked

rare

underdone

medium-scale

dominated

interstitial

amboceptor

cating

neurogen

preparator

transmitter substance

incubation media

nutrient medium

intermediary agent

mediacy

vector

relationship

average value

mean value

measure

facility

drum

growth medium

temperateness

accurate

to be

aid

instruction medium

education medium

medium certainty

substrate

medium-size

medium-sized

moderate-size

moderate-sized

half-baked

rare-roasted

business line

industry

line of business

line of work

military service

ground substance

apparatus

engine

utensil

ambience

neighbourhood

setting

surround

material

divine

foreteller

predictor

prophet

circuit

conductor

conduit

conveyer

conveyor

wire

wiring

medium sweet

forum

mouthpiece

tolerable

midrange

witch

sorcerer

best

bottom

first

inferior

second

third

top

mean of communication

per

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 mediate.

Sentences

They were similar to what other countries called medium tanks .

Houma is also rated as a medium size city .