Found 2 items, similar to media.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: media medium n 1: a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information 2: the surrounding environment; “fish require an aqueous medium” 3: an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication 4: (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms [syn: culture medium] 5: an intervening substance through which something is achieved; “the dissolving medium is called a solvent” 6: a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter 7: (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed 8: a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; “a happy medium” 9: someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; “he consulted several mediums” [syn: spiritualist] 10: transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public [syn: mass medium] 11: an occupation for which you are especially well suited; “in law he found his true metier” [syn: metier] [also: media (pl)] medium adj 1: around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; “an orange of average size”; “intermediate capacity”; “a plane with intermediate range”; “medium bombers” [syn: average, intermediate] 2: (of meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside [also: media (pl)] media See medium [also: mediae (pl)]
English → English (gcide) Definition: media media \me"di*a\ (m[=e]"d[i^]*[.a]), n. sing. & pl., 1. The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, (Computers) place your installation media into the device which will read it; (Microbiology) the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media. [1913 Webster +PJC] 2. The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed with Monica Lewinsky for months. [PJC] Medium \Me"di*um\, n.; pl. L. Media, E. Mediums. [L. medium the middle, fr. medius middle. See Mid, and cf. Medius.] 1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean. [1913 Webster] The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] (b) (Math.) See Mean. (c) (Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection. [1913 Webster] 2. A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted. [1913 Webster] Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] I must bring together All these extremes; and must remove all mediums. --Denham. [1913 Webster] 3. An average. [R.] [1913 Webster] A medium of six years of war, and six years of peace. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 4. A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper. [1913 Webster] 5. (Paint.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application. [1913 Webster] 6. (Microbiology) A source of nutrients in which a microorganism is placed to permit its growth, cause it to produce substances, or observe its activity under defined conditions; also called culture medium or growth medium . The medium is usually a solution of nutrients in water, or a similar solution solidified with gelatin or agar. [PJC] 7. A means of transmission of news, advertising, or other messages from an information source to the public, also called a news medium, such as a newspaper or radio; used mostly in the plural form, i. e. news media or media. See 1st media[2]. [PJC] Circulating medium, a current medium of exchange, whether coin, bank notes, or government notes. Ethereal medium (Physics), the ether. Medium of exchange, that which is used for effecting an exchange of commodities -- money or current representatives of money. [1913 Webster]