media

Meanings

Adjective

• Short form of multimedia

Noun

• The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
• A voiced stop consonant.
• One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
• An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
• Plural of medium
• Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
• The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, etc) which are broadcast or published.
• The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
• Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.

Related

Similar words

• M

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin media, nominal use of the feminine of medius.
• Plural of medium, shortened form of communications media, reinterpreted as singular or mass noun; from Latin medium (plural media), nominal use of the neuter of medius.
• Shortening from multimedia