medium
/ˈmiː.di.əm/ noun B1- 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. · Cable TV is an inexpensive advertising medium.
- The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
- A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
Plural media
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But even this would have availed little against a more deadly medium of death employed four days ago, which is generally but too fatal.”
He was simply what the porter described as a “medium-looking chap,” a man of fifty, beard grizzled, pale face, quietly dressed.
“Bless me,” murmured Baron Danglars, “this must surely be a prince instead of a count by their styling him ‘excellency,’ and only venturing to address him by the medium of his valet de chambre.
“Do you know, my dear count,” she said, “that you are a very terrible reasoner, and that you look at the world through a somewhat distempered medium?
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