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medium    音标拼音: [m'idiəm]
n.
中间,中庸,平均数,介质,媒介;媒体,手段,方法,宣传工具;

中间,中庸,平均数,介质,媒介;媒体,手段,方法,宣传工具;

medium
媒介;媒体;储存媒体;中等的

medium
媒体 中

medium
adj 1: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of
average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"
[synonym: {average}, {intermediate}, {medium}]
2: (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside
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 [synonym: {culture medium},
{medium}]
5: a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
6: (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or
displayed
7: an intervening substance through which something is achieved;
"the dissolving medium is called a solvent"
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" [synonym: {medium},
{spiritualist}, {sensitive}]
10: (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely
to the public [synonym: {medium}, {mass medium}]
11: an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in
law he found his true metier" [synonym: {metier}, {medium}]

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.
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The just medium . . . lies between pride and
abjection. --L'Estrange.
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(b) (Math.) See {Mean}.
(c) (Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that
by which the extremes are brought into connection.
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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.
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Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause
a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
--Bacon.
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I must bring together
All these extremes; and must remove all mediums.
--Denham.
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3. An average. [R.]
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A medium of six years of war, and six years of
peace. --Burke.
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4. A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain
sizes. See {Paper}.
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5. (Paint.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are
ground and prepared for application.
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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.
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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.
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Medium \Me"di*um\, a.
Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate;
medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium
strength.
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349 Moby Thesaurus words for "medium":
Charlie McCarthy, actor, agency, agent, air brush, ambiance,
ambience, ambient, amidships, ancilla, appliance, approach,
arbitrator, arc, arc light, architect, art paper, atmosphere,
atoms, autecology, author, automatist, avenue, average, balance,
banal, betwixt and between, bien cuit, bioecology, bionomics,
broker, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, center,
central, chalk, channel, charcoal, chromogen, climate, coat,
coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin,
colorant, coloring, common, compromise, connection, contact,
contrivance, conveyance, core, course, crayon, creator, creature,
crown, dead-color, deputy, device, dimmer, distemper, distillate,
distillation, distributor, doer, done, doneness, drawing paper,
drawing pencil, drier, dull, dummy, duodecimo, dupe, dye, dyestuff,
easel, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecology, ecosystem, ecstatic,
eighteenmo, element, elixir, environment, equatorial, equidistant,
essence, everyday, executant, executor, executrix, expedient,
exterior paint, fabric, fabricator, fair, fair to middling,
fairish, fence, fixative, flat coat, flat wash, floats, flood,
floodlight, floor enamel, folio, footlights, foots, front,
front man, gelatin, generality, gist, go-between, golden mean,
ground, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway,
halfway measures, handmaid, handmaiden, happy medium, heart,
imperial, implement, indifferent, insipid, instrument,
instrumentality, instrumentation, interagent, interceder,
intercessor, intercurrent, interior, interior paint, interjacent,
intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediation,
intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interpleader, intervener,
intervenient, intervening, interventionist, interventor, jobber,
juste-milieu, kernel, klieg light, lackluster, lay figure, lever,
liaison, light plot, lights, limelight, link, long suit, maker,
marquee, marrow, material, matter, maulstick, mean, means, meat,
mechanism, medial, median, mediary, mediator, mediocre, mediocrity,
mediterranean, medium-rare, mesial, mesne, method, metier, mezzo,
mid, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point,
middle position, middle state, middle way, middle-of-the-road,
middleman, middling, midland, midpoint, midships, midway, midwife,
milieu, minion, ministry, mise-en-scene, mode, moderate,
moderateness, moderation, modest, mouthpiece, mover, namby-pamby,
necromancer, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix,
neutral, neutral ground, norm, normal, nub, nuclear, octavo,
octodecimo, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, ombudsman,
opaque color, operant, operative, operator, ordinary, organ,
overcooked, overdone, oyster, paint, paintbrush, palette,
palette knife, par, passable, pastel, pawn, pencil, performer,
perpetrator, pigment, pigments, pith, plaything, popular,
practitioner, prime coat, prime mover, primer, priming, producer,
psychic, psychographist, puppet, quarto, quintessence, respectable,
road, route, routine, royal, rule, run, run-of-mine,
run-of-the-mill, sap, scratchboard, servant, sextodecimo,
siccative, sixteenmo, sketchbook, sketchpad, slave, so-so, soul,
spatula, spirit, spirit rapper, spiritist, spiritualist, spokesman,
spokeswoman, spot, spotlight, spray gun, stain, standard, stooge,
stuff, stump, subject, substance, sum and substance, super,
surroundings, synecology, tangible, technique, tedious, tempera,
thinner, tie, tinction, tincture, tolerable, tool, toy,
transparent color, turpentine, turps, twelvemo, undercoat,
undercoating, usual, vapid, varnish, vehicle, via media, vulgar,
wash, wash coat, way, well-cooked, well-done, wholesaler,
wishy-washy, worker



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