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an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium" someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums" a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium" an intervening substance through which something is achieved; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent" (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter (of meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside cooked an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier" (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers" moderate |
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