Synonyms:
average, intermediate, medium
Meaning: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
medium
Meaning: a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
Synonyms:
medium
Meaning: the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium"
Synonyms:
medium
Meaning: an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
Synonyms:
culture_medium, medium
Meaning: (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
Usage examples
"You will see, directly," replied the medium.
[Sidenote: The medium must also be transparent.]
Was it due to the presence of a resisting medium?
[Sidenote: The refracting human medium for ideas.]
This medium may be air, water, a bar of iron or steel, the earth, etc.
After the loaves rise bake in a medium oven for one hour and ten minutes.
A man is sometimes a coloured and sometimes a clear medium for the energies he exerts.
"BROTHER SAMUEL:--Will you communicate with me through this medium? WILLIAM FRANKLIN."
Ferdy was of medium size; compact rather than slender; built of rawhide and spring steel.
But in the operation of the intellect there is no appointed medium that has to be brought into act.