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.

Noun

(uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements.

* 1924 , HE Wortham, A Musical Odyssey , p. 97:

Brahms, after realizing that the technique of the piano was developing along mistaken lines, and his own danger of stereotyping his style, keeps away from it for most of his middle age [...].

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(uncountable) Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill.

* 2011 , "Bhimsen Joshi", The Economist , 3 Feb 2011:

Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique .

(label) a method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge.

* 2011 , Paul Lewis & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian , 16 Mar 2011:

They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.