“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
(anatomy) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]
(geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
(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.]
(US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic. [from 20th c.]