How to pronounce “medium”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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 supposedly 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.

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