medium

Meanings

Noun

• The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
• The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
• A format for communicating or presenting information.
• A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro.
• A substance, structure, or environment in which living organisms subsist, grow or are cultured.
• A means, channel, agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieved.
• Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
• A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
• A means of expression, in the arts, such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc).
• The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
• Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
• A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
• A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
• A middle place or degree.
• An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
• The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.

Adjective

• Arithmetically average.
• Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
• Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.

Adverb

• To a medium extent.

Related

Similar words

• mediumly

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius. Compare middle. Cognate with Spanish medio ("middle; half; means, medium, way").