Definition of (medium) in English English dictionary
- mesotrophic
- Lowenstein-Jensen medium
- a primary mycobacterial recovery media composed of fresh whole eggs, defined salts, glycerol, potato flour, and malachite green
- contrast medium
- Any substance, such as barium sulfate, used in radiography to increase the visibility of internal structures
- culture medium
- A liquid or gel, containing nutrients, that is used to cultivate microorganisms
- differential medium
- growth medium that allows two or more organisms to be distinguished from one another by some parameter, such as growth vs. no-growth, distinguishing colors, distinguishing morphologies, etc
- growth medium
- A culture medium
- happy medium
- A balanced position between two opposite extremes
The tone of the paper strikes a happy medium between layman approachability and technical accuracy.
- mass medium
- Any means of public communication that reaches a large audience
The movie is to dramatic representation what the book was to the manuscript. It makes available to many and at many times and places what otherwise would be restricted to a few at few times and places. The movie, like the book, is a ditto device. TV shows to 50,000,000 simultaneously. Some feel that the value of experiencing a book is diminished by being extended to many minds. This notion is always implicit in the phrases mass media, mass entertainment—useless phrases obscuring the fact that English itself is a mass medium. —Marshall McLuhan|Marshall McLuhan]] in Classroom without Walls, Explorations in Communication.
- medium
- A liquid base which carries pigment in paint
- medium
- The nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent
- medium
- Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc
- medium
- The means or channel by which an aim is achieved
- medium
- The material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass
- medium
- A format for communicating or presenting information
- medium
- Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre
- medium
- A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro
- medium
- Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container
- medium
- Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world
- medium
- A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit
- medium
- Arithmetically average
- medium dry
- between dry and medium sweetness
- medium of exchange
- An intermediary used in trade to avoid the inconveniences of a pure barter system, such as money
- medium pace
- describing a style of bowling, intermediate in speed between spin and pace, in which the bowler uses swing or seam to take wickets
- medium pacer
- a medium pace bowler
- medium pacers
- plural form of medium pacer
- medium rare
- Cooked somewhat lightly, so the meat is no longer red, but is not brown (in the case of beef); cooked to a degree between rare and medium
- medium-chain
- Having a chain of between about six and twelve carbon atoms
- medium-chain triglyceride
- Any ester of glycerol with fatty acids containing six to twelve carbons; posited to have certain beneficial health effects
However, it differs from fats such as butter because it contains a lot of medium-chain triglycerides (MCT).
- medium-sized
- Having a medium or intermediate size
- medium-term
- Between short-term and long-term
- storage medium
- Any hardware (such as disks or tape) used to store data
- transmission medium
- any material substance which can propagate waves or energy
- medium
- {n} a mean, a middle state or place, a kind of printing paper, average state
- Small and medium enterprises
- Small and medium enterprises or SMEs, also called small and medium-sized enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses or small and medium businesses or SMBs are companies whose headcount or turnover falls below certain limits
- medium of publication
- The instrument by which a work is published, it isn't just the written word, but could be any kind of media
- porous medium
- A porous medium or a porous material is a solid (often called frame or matrix) permeated by an interconnected network of pores (voids) filled with a fluid (liquid or gas). Usually both the solid matrix and the pore network (also known as the pore space) are assumed to be continuous, so as to form two interpenetrating continua such as in a sponge. Many natural substances such as rocks, soils, biological tissues (e.g. bones), and man made materials such as cements, foams and ceramics can be considered as porous media. A poroelastic medium is characterised by its porosity, permeability as well as the properties of its constituents (solid matrix and fluid)
- strike a happy medium
- (deyim) To find an answer to a problem that is halfway between two unsatisfactory answers
1. Mary said the dress was blue. Jane said it was green. They finally struck a happy medium and decided it was blue-green.
2. Two teaspoons of sugar made the cup of coffee too sweet, and one not sweet enough. One heaping teaspoon struck a happy medium.
- strike a happy medium
- (deyim) Find an answer to a problem that is halfway between two unsatisfactory answers
1. Mary said the dress was blue. Jane said it was green. They finally struck a happy medium and decided it was blue-green.
2. Two teaspoons of sugar made the cup of coffee too sweet, and one not sweet enough. One heaping teaspoon struck a happy medium.
- Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
- sophisticated air-to-air missile that is effective for medium distances (equipped with radar for target identification), AMRAAM
- circulation medium
- medium which facilitates the exchange of goods (currency, etc.)
- circulation medium multiplier
- index that determines the rate of change in the amount of money in an economy as a result of printing one currency by the government (Economics)
- contrast medium
- a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
- culture medium
- (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
- culture medium
- Any nutrient system for the artificial cultivation of bacteria or other cells; usually a complex mixture of organic and inorganic materials
- culture medium
- A culture medium is a substance on or in which microorganisms or cells can be grown It contains nutrients and a favorable environment for the growth of microorganisms and cells
- culture medium
- A liquid or gelatinous substance containing nutrients in which microorganisms or tissues are cultivated for scientific purposes
- dispersion medium
- The continuous medium, such as a gas, liquid, or solid, in which a disperse phase is distributed
- growth medium
- substance in which microorganisms can be grown
- interplanetary medium
- interplanetary space including forms of energy and gas and dust
- interstellar medium
- Content of the region between the stars, including vast, diffuse clouds of gases and minute solid particles. Such tenuous matter in the Milky Way Galaxy accounts for about 5% of its total mass. By no means a complete vacuum, the interstellar medium contains mainly hydrogen gas, with a smaller amount of helium and sizable quantities of dust particles of uncertain composition. Primary cosmic rays also travel through interstellar space, and magnetic fields extend across much of it. Most interstellar matter occurs in cloudlike concentrations, which can condense to form stars. Stars, in turn, continually lose mass through stellar winds (see solar wind). Supernovas and planetary nebulae also feed mass back to the interstellar medium, where it mixes with matter that has not yet formed stars (see Populations I and II)
- magnetic storage medium
- any storage medium in which different patterns of magnetization are used to represent stored bits or bytes of information; "the hard disk in you computer is magnetic storage
- medium
- If something is of medium size, it is neither large nor small, but approximately half way between the two. A medium dose produces severe nausea within hours He was of medium height with blond hair and light blue eyes
- medium
- an intervening substance through which something is achieved; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent"
- medium
- someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums"
- medium
- The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection
- medium
- a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium"
- medium
- an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
- medium
- 1) Sound is transmitted through media, such as air, liquids, and/or solids 2) A transmission format, such as recording (tape or disc), broadcast, film, etc
- medium
- Of intermediate size
- medium
- The material or technique used by an artist to produce a work of art
- medium
- the material or materials with which the artist works Examples: oil paint, watercolor, tempera, wood, bronze, stone, plaster, concrete
- medium
- If you strike or find a happy medium between two extreme and opposite courses of action, you find a sensible way of behaving that is somewhere between the two extremes. I still aim to strike a happy medium between producing football that's worth watching and getting results
- medium
- Any physical material capable of holding data (e g , pages, film, magnetic tape, CD-ROM, etc )
- medium
- {s} intermediate in size or degree, not to an extreme; mediocre
- medium
- The pathway that carries a signal Wireless telecommunications use radio waves as media whereas non-wireless media includes, for example, cables and fibers
- medium
- Any region through which a wave disturbance propagates Mechanical waves require a matter medium Electromagnetic waves propagate through a vacuum and various matter media
- medium
- Any material and technique used to produce a work of art (paint, glass, clay, fibre, etc ) It may also refer to the liquid with which powdered pigments are mixed to make paint
- medium
- (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
- medium
- {i} means by which something is accomplished; means of expression; channel of communication; middle man, intermediary; substance or environment through which something is affected; broker; psychic (Spiritual)
- medium
- an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium"
- medium
- That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity
- medium
- (of meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside
- medium
- the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium"
- medium
- the technical or material mode of artistic expression or communication Used to describe the instrument(s) and/or voice(s) for which music is written or on which it is played (i e , the medium of performance); also used to describe the physical carrier, such as a disc or cassette See also: physical carrier
- medium
- Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean
- medium
- The plural of the noun can be either mediums or media for meanings
- medium
- A medium is a person who claims to be able to contact and speak to people who are dead, and to pass messages between them and people who are still alive. see also media
- medium
- The material used to support the transmission of data This can be copper wire, coaxial cable, optical fiber, or electromagnetic wave (as in microwave)
- medium bomber
- medium-sized aircraft built especially for bombing missions
- medium frequency
- A radio frequency or radio-frequency band in the range 300 to 3,000 kilohertz
- medium height
- average height, neither short nor tall
- medium of exchange
- Anything that is acceptable in exchange for goods and services
- medium of exchange
- Something, such as a precious metal, that is commonly used in a specific area or among a certain group of people as money
- medium of exchange
- an item that is generally accepted as a means of payment for goods and services (chapters 2 and 10)
- medium of exchange
- The most general name for things or services exchanged, including money, credit, hours of labor, etc, etc, indeed anything of value
- medium of exchange
- an item that can be commonly exchanged for goods and services throughout the economy
- medium of exchange
- Anything accepted in exchange in lieu of the wealth form desired
- medium range
- period between a year and isolated years, the coming years; distance of an intermediate hit
- medium steak
- steak which is not completely cooked, steak with some pink meat in the center
- medium steel
- 15-0
- medium steel
- steel with 0
- medium waves
- intermediate electromagnetic waves for radio broadcasting (150-1000 meters)
- medium weight
- intermediate weight, category for sportsmen weighing between 57-80 kilograms
- medium-distance runs
- foot race of a distance between 800 meters and one mile
- medium-dry
- Medium-dry wine or sherry is not very sweet
- medium-sized
- Medium-sized means neither large nor small, but approximately half way between the two. a medium-sized saucepan. medium-sized accountancy firms. not small but not large either
- medium-term
- The medium-term is the period of time which lasts a few months or years beyond the present time, in contrast with the short term or the long term. The medium-term economic prospects remained poor If a woman gives up her job to look after her baby, she will risk losing her salary in the medium-term and may seriously damage her long-term career prospects