Definition of medium

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

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Convey :: Convey (v. t.) To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas..
Light :: Light (n.) The medium through which light is admitted, as a window, or window pane; a skylight; in architecture, one of the compartments of a window made by a mullion or mullions..
Air :: Air (n.) The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.
Atmosphere :: Atmosphere (n.) Any gaseous envelope or medium.
Mean :: Mean (n.) That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure..
Immediacy :: Immediacy (n.) The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.
Middling :: Middling (a.) Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary..
Waft :: Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float..
Spiritualist :: Spiritualist (n.) One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist..
Ether :: Ether (n.) A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether..
Atmosphere :: Atmosphere (n.) A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies..
Refraction :: Refraction (n.) The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved..
Barrenwort :: Barrenwort (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific..
Pulse :: Pulse (n.) Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement..
Refrangible :: Refrangible (a.) Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light..
Isopycnic :: Isopycnic (n.) A line or surface passing through those points in a medium, at which the density is the same..
Organ :: Organ (n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc..
Twilight :: Twilight (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
Bath :: Bath (n.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body..
Waftage :: Waftage (n.) Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water..
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