A Quick and Simple Dictionary

medium

1. Noun.  (context, plural '''media''' or '''mediums''') The nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
2. Noun.  (context, plural '''media''' or '''mediums''') The material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
3. Noun.  (context, plural '''media''' or '''mediums''') A format for communicating or presenting information.
4. Noun.  (context, plural '''media''' or '''mediums''') The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
5. Noun.  (context, plural '''media''' or '''mediums''') A nutrient solution for the growth of cells ''in vitro''.
6. Noun.  (context, plural '''media''' or '''mediums''') The means or channel by which an aim is achieved.
7. Noun.  (context, plural '''mediums''' or '''media''') A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
8. Noun.  (context, plural '''mediums''' or '''media''') A tool used for painting or drawing.
9. Noun.  (context, plural '''mediums''') Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
10. Noun.  (context, plural '''mediums''') Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
11. Noun.  (context, plural '''mediums''') A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
12. Adjective.  (obsolete) Arithmetically average.
13. Adjective.  Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
14. Adjective.  Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.