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.

Synonyms

average

middle

mean

means

moderate

intermediate

media

environment

middling

intermediary

way

channel

psychic

median

mediocre

tool

vehicle

ambiance

spiritualist

ordinary

agency

milieu

temperate

culture medium

mid

center

sorceress

sensitive

mediator

mode

instrument

method

centre

medial

surroundings

common

metier

inside

transmitter

agent

midst

moderation

instrumentality

M

M

shrine maiden

carrier

passable

device

mass medium

a form of communication

regular

resource

implement

in-between

med

storage medium

mediocrity

per

predictor

procedure

process

prophet

rare

relationship

scheme

second

2nd

setting

side

small

sorcerer

so-so

substrate

surround

system

temperateness

third

3rd

tolerable

top

🔝

underdone

unremarkable

utensil

vector

wire

wiring

witch

young

business line

half baked

half-cooked

line of work

female fortuneteller

half-done

virgin consecrated to a deity

amboceptor

cating

intermediator

mediacy

preparator

industry

policy

of medium age

of medium size

moderate-sized

growth medium

ground substance

medium-size

moderate-size

rare-roasted

spirit rapper

nutrient medium

medium-scale

medium-dated gilt

neurogen

transmitter substance

incubation media

intermediary agent

mean of communication

instruction medium

education medium

medium certainty

best

medium sweet

part

to be

accomplice

accurate

adolescent

aid

ambience

apparatus

atmosphere

average value

behalf

bottom

circuit

conductor

conduit

conjuror

conveyer

conveyor

divine

diviner

dominated

drum

🥁

engine

enviroment

facility

factor

fair

first

1st

foreteller

forum

go-between

half-baked

inferior

institution

intermediation

interposition

interstitial

intervening

intervention

invoker

line of business

m

m

material

mean value

measure

medium-sized

mezzo

midrange

military service

mouthpiece

negotiator

neighbourhood

normal

occasion

oracle

peacemaker

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 .