medium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson. === Pronunciation === enPR: mē'diəm, IPA(key): /ˈmiː.di.əm/ Rhymes: -iːdiəm === Noun === medium (plural media or mediums) 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. (microbiology) A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro. (biology, horticulture, etc.) 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. (engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process. (countable, plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint. (painting) A means of expression, in the arts, such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc). (countable, logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection. (countable, plural mediums or (rare, nonstandard) media) Someone who conveys information from the spirit world. (countable) A middle place or degree. (countable, dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean. Anything of a middle rank or position. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === medium (countable and uncountable, plural mediums) (nominalized) (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a large but larger than a small. Synonym: M (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size. (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size. (countable, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions). ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === medium (not comparable) (obsolete) 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. (especially clothing, food or drink) That is medium (the manufactured size). ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:intermediate ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adverb === medium (not comparable) To a medium extent. ==== Synonyms ==== mediumly === References === “medium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “medium”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === edimmu == Danish == === Etymology === From Latin medium. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /meːdiɔm/, [ˈmeːˀd̥jɔm] === Noun === medium or medie n (singular definite mediet, plural indefinite medier) medium ==== Inflection ==== === Adjective === medium (neuter medium, plural and definite singular attributive medium) medium === Further reading === medium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da == Dutch == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Latin medium. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈmeːdiʏm/ ==== Noun ==== medium n (plural media, diminutive mediumpje n) means, system or instrument for fulfilling an end (physics) medium which a wave or force traverses 2009, Douglas C. Giancoli, Natuurkunde. Deel 2: Elektriciteit, magnetism, optica en moderne fysica, (tr. by Marianne Kerkhof & Louis Rijk Vertaling, red. by Luc van Hoorebeeke & Jan Rykebusch), Pearson (4th edition), 1100. (grammar) middle voice (communication, media) means of communication, media outlet (communication) data medium, something that contains data channeler, someone who claims to access the dead ===== Derived terms ===== geluidsmedium lichtmedium massamedium mediopassief taalmedium ===== Descendants ===== → Indonesian: medium === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from English medium, from Latin medium. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈmidiʏm/ ==== Noun ==== medium n (plural mediums, no diminutive) something of medium size ==== Adjective ==== medium (not comparable) of medium size (of meat) medium rare ===== Declension ===== ===== Synonyms ===== (medium rare): halfgaar == Indonesian == === Etymology === From Dutch medium, from Latin medium. Semantic loan from English medium for a measurement intermediate between extremes. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [meˈdiʊm] Hyphenation: mé‧di‧um === Noun === médium (plural medium-medium) medium, anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes the means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world (physics) the materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass (biology) a nutrient solution for the growth (rare) media ==== Alternative forms ==== media === Further reading === “medium”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɛ.di.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛː.di.um] === Adjective === medium inflection of medius: masculine accusative singular neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular === Noun === medium n (genitive mediī or medī); second declension middle, center, medium, midst community, public, publicity ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== e medio abeo in medio ==== Descendants ==== (Note: all borrowings, inherited terms merged with the descendants of medius.) === Noun === medium accusative/genitive singular of medius === References === “medium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “medium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "medium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin medium. === Noun === medium n (definite singular mediet, indefinite plural medier, definite plural media or mediene) a medium (also in spiritualism) ==== Derived terms ==== kjølemedium massemedium === See also === medie- === References === “medium” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin medium. === Noun === medium n (definite singular mediet, indefinite plural medium, definite plural media) a medium (also in spiritualism) ==== Derived terms ==== kjølemedium massemedium === See also === medie- === References === “medium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Polish == === Etymology === Borrowed from English medium, from Latin medium. Doublet of miedza and między. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.djum/ Rhymes: -ɛdjum Syllabification: me‧dium === Noun === medium n medium (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world) means (instrument or condition for attaining a purpose) (grammar) middle voice Synonym: strona zwrotna ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “medium”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “medium”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) == Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin medium. === Noun === medium n medium (on some scale) a medium (substance in which some physical process takes place) a medium (format for transmitting information) a medium. a person who supposedly communicates with spirits (grammar) middle voice (mathematics) a mean Synonym: (more common) medelvärde (dated) a middle part ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === “medium”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “medium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “medium”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)