Noun

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(often, literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location .

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* 1995 , Mary Ellen Pitts, Toward a Dialogue of Understandings: Loren Eiseley and the Critique of Science , page 225,

At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.

* 2002', Nathan W. Schlueter, ''One Dream Or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.'', page 89], quoting '''1963 , , ''[[w:I Have a Dream, I Have a Dream] , speech,

As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

Noun

(en-noun)

The nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.

The material or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.

* Francis Bacon

Whether any other liquors, being made mediums , cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.

* Denham

I must bring together / All these extremes; and must remove all mediums .

(senseid) A format for communicating or presenting information.

The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.

A nutrient solution for the growth of cells ''in vitro .

* 1996 , Samuel Baron (editor), Medical Microbiology :

In some instances one can take advantage of differential carbohydrate fermentation capabilities of microorganisms by incorporating one or more carbohydrates in the medium' along with a suitable pH indicator. Such '''media''' are called differential ' media (e.g., eosin methylene blue or MacConkey agar) and are commonly used to isolate enteric bacilli.

The means or channel by which an aim is achieved.

A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.

A tool used for painting or drawing.

Acrylics, oils, charcoal and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.

Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.

Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.

A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.

A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).

A middle place or degree.

a happy medium

* L'Estrange

The just medium lies between pride and abjection.

(dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.

* Burke

a medium of six years of war, and six years of peace

(logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.