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medium
  1. (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
  2. (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
  3. (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
  4. (plural media or mediums, engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
  5. (plural media or mediums, microbiology) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
  6. (plural media or mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
  7. (plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
  8. (plural mediums or media, painting) A tool used for painting or drawing.
  9. (plural mediums, spiritualism) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
  10. (plural mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
  11. (plural mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
  12. (plural mediums, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
  13. A middle place or degree.
  14. (dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
  15. (logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
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  17. Examples:
    1. “The marketing department would decide to use social media as the next medium for promoting our products.”
      “Organic matter plays an important complementary role, especially on very sandy soils where it is practically the only medium for nutrient and water storage.”
      “If an authentic medium detects a spirit that is present, they will try and convince it to move on.”
median
  1. (anatomy) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]
  2. (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
  3. (statistics) In statistics and probability theory, the median is the number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of mean of the two middle values. [from 19th c.]
  4. (US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic. [from 20th c.]
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The station would have a center platform station in the median of Main Street, west of Longmore.”
      “Calculate the median of these five scores.”
media
  1. (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  2. (linguistics) A voiced stop consonant.
  3. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
  4. (zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “As with many ancient legends, the Bogeyman has seen a rekindled popularity in modern media, including those aimed at children.”
      “The social interaction mediated through the visual channel in social media can be an effective mechanism for cultural diffusion.”
      “As soon as they learned of his arrest, the media vultures started circling.”
media
  1. (often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
  2. The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “As with many ancient legends, the Bogeyman has seen a rekindled popularity in modern media, including those aimed at children.”
      “The social interaction mediated through the visual channel in social media can be an effective mechanism for cultural diffusion.”
      “As soon as they learned of his arrest, the media vultures started circling.”
medial
  1. One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
  2. Any of various things that occur in the middle.
mediasphere
  1. (journalism) The collective ecology of the world's media, including newspapers, journals, television, radio, books, novels, advertising, press releases, publicity and the blogosphere; any and all media both broadcast and published.
mediumship
  1. The state of being a medium (psychic conduit); purported ability to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.
  2. Examples:
    1. “While demonology may be the most dramatic, mediumship is also a form of necromancy, as is divination, which employs the use of spirit guides.”
      “If you have received an apport, then you, or someone in the vicinity, probably possess an degree of physical mediumship energy.”
      “Her mediumship, so vital to the world, so sacred in his eyes, had but added to her allurement.”
mediamaking
  1. The relationship between the world and the media and the way they each influence one another.
mediacracy
  1. Rule by the media; a situation in which the media dominates or controls the populace.
mediascape
  1. The metaphorical landscape of trends, tastes, etc. promoted by the media.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Methodologies that focus on a single medium and particular types of text seem inappropriate to the understanding of the contemporary mediascape.”
      “We are progressing towards a landscape which blurs the line between the mediascape and material reality.”
      “If the mediascape is not open and pluralistic, these viewpoints may leave the democratic sphere and foment violence.”
medialization
  1. The act or process of medializing (making more medial).
  2. Examples:
    1. “The laryngoscope is used again to confirm vocal cord medialization while the patient phonates.”
      “With the window removed, the surgeon tried various sizers to achieve proper medialization of the cord.”
      “The surgery is called medialization laryngoplasty with arytenoid adduction.”
mediumism
  1. The actions of a medium (person claiming to contact the dead).
mediaspeak
  1. The jargon used by the media.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In mediaspeak, if you thought invading Iraq and signing the NAFTA trade pact were good ideas, you're a pragmatist.”
      “Mainly White Noise and Libra are full of mediaspeak from television, radio and the tabloids.”
      “She is fluent not only in academese and Mormonish, but also in mediaspeak, a dialect that does not come naturally to academics.”
mediacrat
  1. A member of the mediacracy.
mediaspheres
  1. plural of mediasphere
mediascapes
  1. plural of mediascape
mediumships
  1. plural of mediumship
mediacracies
  1. plural of mediacracy
mediacrats
  1. plural of mediacrat
mediae
  1. plural form of media
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In this context, we should mention the Echternach International Festival which is organised every year in this small mediae val town.”
      “It is not until much later times that the h in the mutated forms of the tenues, or the use of the dot, was extended to the mediae.”
      “As a rule the medial mutation of the tenues and mediae is not denoted in O. Welsh.”
medials
  1. plural of medial
medians
  1. plural of median
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Summary descriptive statistics were computed by using proportions or medians and interquartile ranges.”
      “Large expanses of lawns with hedges, flowerbeds and ground covers interspersed with royal palms along the medians are envisaged in the plan.”
      “Raised medians at the centre of the carriageway could also serve as pedestrian refuges.”
mediums
  1. plural of medium
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His mediums include real rust, iron and aluminum powders, patinas, raw pigment and rich dyes.”
      “His grandmother used to sit with mediums, and he was always aware of his own aptitude for the spiritual.”
      “It is simply a case of making use of the benefits of different mediums for different purposes.”
medias
  1. (proscribed) plural of media
  2. Examples:
    1. “We enter the story in medias res, joining on-set a company that has been laboring on that film for a year.”
      “He begins in medias res, introducing characters, places and events that are not explained in detail until many pages later.”
      “But in a sad attempt to channel HOMER, we began this column in medias res, something we had almost forgotten.”
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