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about halfway between extremes: The shirt was a size medium.; an agency by which something is conveyed: the medium of television
Not to be confused with:median – relating to the middle: a median strip in a highway; a midpoint, line, or plane: The median cost of a home is higher than ever.

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M0195100 (mē′dē-əm)n. pl. me·di·a (-dē-ə) or me·di·ums 1. Something, such as an intermediate course of action, that occupies a position or represents a condition midway between extremes.2. Physics a. A substance that propagates energy or signals through space via changes in its own state: Air acts as a medium for the transmission of sound waves.b. The sparsely distributed gas and dust subsisting in the space between stars.3. An agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred: The train was the usual medium of transportation in those days.4. pl. media Usage Problem a. A means of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television.b. media(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The group of journalists and others who constitute the communications industry and profession.5. pl. media Computers Any of various kinds of storage devices, such as hard drives or digital audiotape.6. pl. mediums A person thought to have the power to communicate with the spirits of the dead or with agents of another world or dimension. Also called psychic.7. pl. media a. A surrounding environment in which something functions and thrives.b. The substance in which a specific organism lives and thrives.c. A culture medium.8. a. A specific kind of artistic technique or means of expression as determined by the materials used or the creative methods involved: the medium of lithography.b. The materials used in a specific artistic technique: oils as a medium.9. A solvent with which paint is thinned to the proper consistency.10. Chemistry A filtering substance, such as filter paper.adj. Occurring or being between two degrees, amounts, or quantities; intermediate: ordered a medium coffee. See Synonyms at average.

[Latin, from neuter of medius, middle; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots.]Usage Note: The etymologically plural form media is sometimes used as a singular to refer to a particular means of communication, as in The internet is the most exciting new media since television. Many people regard this usage as incorrect. In our 2001 survey, 91 percent of the Usage Panel rejected this usage in the example just quoted. In such contexts. the singular medium is acceptable. · Media also occurs with the definite article as a collective term that refers to the communities and institutions behind the various forms of communication. In this sense, the media means something like "the press." Like other collective nouns, it may take a singular or plural verb depending on the intended meaning. If the point is to emphasize the multifaceted nature of the press, a plural verb may be more appropriate: The media have covered the trial in a variety of formats. Quite frequently, however, media stands as a singular noun for the aggregate of journalists and broadcasters: The media has not shown much interest in covering the trial. All things being equal, the Usage Panel has a decided preference for the plural use in these sentences, with 91 percent accepting the variety of formats sentence, and only 38 accepting the covering the trial sentence in 2001. This suggests that many people still think of media predominantly as a plural form, and that it will be some time before the singular use of media begins to crowd out the plural use in the manner of similar Latin plurals, such as agenda and data. · Inconveniently, the singular medium cannot be used as a collective noun for the press. Sentences like No medium has shown much interest in covering the trial are not standard and may be viewed as nonsensical.

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(ˈmiːdɪəm) adj1. midway between extremes; average: a medium size. 2. (Colours) (of a colour) reflecting or transmitting a moderate amount of light: a medium red. Compare light¹²⁹, dark²n, pl -dia (-dɪə) or -diums3. an intermediate or middle state, degree, or condition; mean: the happy medium. 4. an intervening substance or agency for transmitting or producing an effect; vehicle: air is a medium for sound. 5. (Communications & Information) a means or agency for communicating or diffusing information, news, etc, to the public: television is a powerful medium. 6. (Alternative Belief Systems) a person supposedly used as a spiritual intermediary between the dead and the living7. (Biology) the substance in which specimens of animals and plants are preserved or displayed8. (Microbiology) biology short for culture medium9. (Biology) the substance or surroundings in which an organism naturally lives or grows10. (Art Terms) art a. the category of a work of art, as determined by its materials and methods of production: the medium of wood engraving. b. the materials used in a work of art11. (Chemistry) any solvent in which pigments are mixed and thinned12. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) any one of various sizes of writing or printing paper, esp 18 by 23 inches or 17 by 22 inches (small medium)[C16: from Latin: neuter singular of medius middle]Usage: See at media¹

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n., pl. -di•a (-di ə) for 1-9, 11, -di•ums for 1-11, 17, n. 1. a middle state or condition; mean. 2. something intermediate in nature or degree. 3. an intervening substance, as air, through which a force acts or an effect is produced. 4. the element that is the natural habitat of an organism. 5. surrounding objects, conditions, or influences; environment. 6. an intervening agency, means, or instrument by which something is conveyed or accomplished: Words are a medium of expression. 7. one of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers or television. 8. the substance in which specimens are displayed or preserved. 9. Also called culture medium. a nutrient material for the cultivation of microorganisms, tissues, etc. 10. a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living. 11. a. a size, as of garments, to fit the average figure. b. an item in this size. 12. the material or technique with which an artist works. adj. 13. about halfway between extremes in degree, quantity, position, or quality. [1575–85; < Latin: n. use of neuter of medius middle. See mid¹] usage: See media¹.

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(mē′dē-əm) Plural media 1. A substance, such as agar, in which bacteria or other microorganisms are grown for scientific purposes.2. A substance through which energy, especially in waves, is transmitted. Sound waves, for example, can travel through the medium of a solid (such as wood or steel), a liquid (such as water), or a gas (such as air). In contrast, seismic waves can travel through the Earth's solid layers and in some cases its liquid layer (the outer core) as well, but they cannot travel through air. See more at wave.

medium

Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead.

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Noun	1.	medium - a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating informationinstrumentation, instrumentality - an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some endvehicle - a medium for the expression or achievement of something; "his editorials provided a vehicle for his political views"; "a congregation is a vehicle of group identity"; "the play was just a vehicle to display her talents"paper - a medium for written communication; "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd"cinema, film, celluloid - a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events"print media - a medium that disseminates printed matterdata-storage medium, storage medium - a medium for storing informationtelecom, telecommunication - (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronicallyalbum, record album - one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc
	2.	medium - the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium"environs, surround, surroundings, environment - the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
	3.	medium - an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communicationcommunicating, communication - the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow"aether, ether - a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic wavesairwave, air - medium for radio and television broadcasting; "the program was on the air from 9 til midnight"; "the president used the airwaves to take his message to the people"ban, censor - forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
	4.	medium - (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organismsculture mediumfood, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissuebacteriology - the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to diseaseagar, nutrient agar - any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent
	5.	medium - a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painterliquid - a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressuremagilp, megilp - a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine
	6.	medium - (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayedsubstance - the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes"biological science, biology - the science that studies living organismscontrast material, contrast medium - a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
	7.	medium - an intervening substance through which something is achieved; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent"substance - the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes"dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent - a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution"
	8.	medium - a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium"state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
	9.	medium - someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums"sensitive, spiritualistpsychic - a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
	10.	medium - (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the publicmass mediumtransmission - communication by means of transmitted signalsbroadcast medium, broadcasting - a medium that disseminates via telecommunications
	11.	medium - an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier"metierjob, line of work, occupation, business, line - the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
Adj.	1.	medium - around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"intermediate, averagemoderate - being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart"
	2.	medium - (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat insidecooked - having been prepared for eating by the application of heat

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adjective1. average, mean, middle, middling, fair, intermediate, midway, mediocre, median, medial foods which contain only medium levels of sodium
average unique, unusual, extraordinary, extreme, curious, distinctive, uncommon, utmostnoun1. means, way, form, channel, method, vehicle, instrument, avenue, forum, organ, mode English is used as a medium of instruction at primary level.2. spiritualist, seer, clairvoyant, fortune teller, spiritist, channeller Going to see a medium provided a starting point for her.3. middle, mean, centre, average, compromise, middle ground, middle way, midpoint, middle course, middle path It's difficult to strike a happy medium.4. environment, setting, conditions, influences, surroundings, element, atmosphere, habitat, milieu Blood is a favourable medium for bacteria to grow in.Quotations
"The medium is the message" [Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media]

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noun1. Something, as a type, number, quantity, or degree, that represents a midpoint between extremes on a scale of valuation:average, mean, median, norm, par.2. A settlement of differences through mutual concession:accommodation, arrangement, compromise, give-and-take, settlement.Law: composition.3. That by which something is accomplished or some end achieved:agency, agent, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, intermediary, mean (used in plural), mechanism, organ.4. Journalists and journalism in general.Used in plural (media):fourth estate, press.British: Fleet Street.5. The totality of surrounding conditions and circumstances affecting growth or development:ambiance, atmosphere, climate, environment, milieu, mise en scène, surroundings, world.

Translations

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(ˈmiːdiəm) – plurals media (-diə) mediums – noun1. something by or through which an effect is produced. Air is the medium through which sound is carried.媒介2. (especially in plural) a means (especially radio, television and newspapers) by which news etc is made known. the news media.手段3. a person through whom spirits of dead people are said to speak. I know a medium who says she can communicate with Napoleon.巫师4. a substance in which specimens are preserved, bacteria grown etc. 培养基 adjective middle or average in size, quality etc. Would you like the small, medium or large packet?中等的

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belief that the human personality continues to exist after death and can communicate with the living through the agency of a medium or psychic.
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Medium; Mediumship

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

ASpiritualist medium is one who is able to act as a connection between this physical world and the world of the afterlife, to facilitate messages between the living and the dead. Although all mediums are psychic, not all psychics are mediums. Hence, the terms “medium” and “psychic” are not interchangeable. A medium is acting between this physical world and the world of the deceased; a psychic is dealing only on this level, with no connection to spirit. Most professional psychics act in that capacity with no form of certification or anything other than previously satisfied clients to give them veracity. Mediums, on the other hand, have to submit to rigorous examination and are certified by the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, the (British) Spiritualists’ National Union, or similar established professional organizations.

Maurice Barbanell, the British medium through whom the Native American spirit guide Silver Birch spoke, said:

Mediumship is sensitiveness, the ability to register vibrations, radiations, or frequencies which cannot be captured by any of the five senses. Man has constructed a variety of instruments which enable him to be aware of sights and sounds that are otherwise lost to his senses. The telescope reveals the majesty of the heavens that the eye cannot see. The microscope enables us to be familiar with minute forms of life which are beyond our vision. Radar, X-ray, radio, and television capture for us vibrations that are beyond the range of our visual and auditory organs. The medium, as the name implies, is a go-between, an intermediary—is in effect a human radio or television set. He or she—it is usually a she because women are more sensitive than men—is able to tune in to a world of activity that for the rest of mankind is invisible and inaudible. Just like the radio or television set, every medium is limited in her range of reception. Unlike their mechanical counterparts, however, mediums can, by development, increase their capacity for reception.

French psychical investigator Dr. Joseph Maxwell said that a medium is “a person in the presence of whom psychical phenomena can be observed.” The famous English psychical researcher Frederick W. H. Myers (1843–1901) said that the word medium was “a barbarous and question-begging term” because many mediumistic communications are nothing but subconscious revelation such as found with a psychic. Nandor Fodor points out that Myers refers to the confusion that is noticeable on the point and is the result of the observation that supernormal phenomena use the same channels for manifestation as do abnormal phenomena. Fodor said, “The abnormal phenomena are degenerative, the phenomena of mediumship are developmental, they show the promise of powers as yet unknown whereas the abnormal phenomena, like hysteria or epilepsy, show the degeneration of powers already acquired.”

Lewis Spence suggests that the essential qualification of a medium is an abnormal sensitiveness “which enables him to be readily ‘controlled’ by disembodied spirits.” He added that for this reason mediums are also known as sensitives. Yet most mediums do not look upon their connections with spirit as being “controlled” from the other side. The medium Hudson Tuttle (1836–1910) stated, “A medium cannot be controlled to do anything against his determined will, and the plea that he is compelled by spirits is no excuse for wrongdoing. The medium, like anyone else, knows right from wrong, and if the controlling spirit urges towards the wrong, yielding is as reprehensible as it would be to the promptings of passion or the appetite.” The National Spiritualist Association of Churches says in NSAC Spiritualist Manual that “there is no uniformity of temperament or personality among trance-mediums. They come from among all conditions and grades of social and intellectual life. Many people have erroneously supposed that trance-mediumship causes a loss of individuality or that it is followed by detrimental results to the mentality; but, as a matter of fact, the best trance, as well as inspirational, speakers and mediums, are also the best unfolded otherwise.”

The abilities of a medium are not necessarily there for all time. Many well known mediums in the past gradually lost their ability to produce certain phenomena. Some of them were unable to accept the loss of their gift and resorted to deception in order to maintain the illusion of still holding mediumship. The apport medium Heinrich Melzer was caught with small stones—a regular apport in his sittings—taped behind his ears with flesh-colored plaster tape. Melzer admitted that his power was waning. The mediumship of Emanuel Swedenborg did not develop until the age of fifty-five but lasted until his death. Stainton Moses maintained his powers for only eleven years. At the age of twelve, the daughter of Dr. Segard, a close friend of Professor Charles Richet, showed remarkable psychokinetic ability only for three days.

It is within the capabilities of most people to develop mediumship. With careful training, almost anyone can cultivate one of more forms of it, in either the mental or physical branch of the practice. In the mental category, a Spiritualist medium can receive messages from the spirits through clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairhambience, clairalience or clairgustance. He or she may mentally “hear” what the spirits are saying or may see them and describe what is seen, interpreting actions almost as is done in the game “charades,” or may simply sense what is being passed on. In physical mediumship, there are such forms as materialization, etherialization, transfiguration, apports, trumpets, slates, rappings, levitation, and the production of ectoplasm. Mediumship is also expressed in automatic writing and drawing, table tipping, direct voice, and other phenomena.

Sources:

Barbanell, Maurice: This Is Spiritualism. Oxshott: The Spiritual Truth Press, 1959Berkowitz, Rita S. and Deborah S. Romaine: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Communicatingeith Spirits. New York: Penguin/Alpha, 2003Boddington, Harry: The University of Spiritualism. London: Spiritualist Press, 1947 Fodor, Nandor: Encyclopedia of Psychic Science. London: Arthurs Press, 1933 National Spiritualist Association of Churches: NSAC Spiritualist Manual. Lily Dale: NSAC, 1911; 2002Spence, Lewis: An Encyclopedia of the Occult. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1920

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[′mē·dē·əm] (chemical engineering) The carrier in which a chemical reaction takes place. Material of controlled pore size used to remove foreign particles or liquid droplets from fluid carriers. (computer science) The material, or configuration thereof, on which data are recorded; usually not applied to disk, drum, or core, but to storable, removable media, such as paper tape, cards, and magnetic tape. (physics) That entity in which objects exist and phenomena take place; examples are free space and various fluids and solids.

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The liquid or semiliquid ingredient of a paint which controls ease of application, appearance, gloss, adhesion, durability, and chemical inertness.

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noun means

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noun spiritualist

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noun something, as a type, number, quantity, or degree, that represents a midpoint between extremes on a scale of valuation

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noun a settlement of differences through mutual concession

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noun that by which something is accomplished or some end achieved

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noun journalists and journalism in general

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noun a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information

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noun the surrounding environment

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noun an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication

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noun (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms

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