Definition of medium

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Medium (a.) Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength..

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Instrumentality :: Instrumentality (n.) The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
Conventionalizw :: Conventionalizw (v. t.) To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others..
Organ :: Organ (n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government..
Mesocephalic :: Mesocephalic (a.) Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.
Resisting :: Resisting (a.) Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium..
Twilight :: Twilight (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
Homoiothermal :: Homoiothermal (a.) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium..
Instrument :: Instrument (n.) One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent..
Greengage :: Greengage (n.) A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage..
Undulation :: Undulation (n.) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration..
Pulsation :: Pulsation (n.) A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds..
Conductor :: Conductor (n.) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod..
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation..
Medium-sized :: Medium-sized (a.) Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man..
Dioptrics :: Dioptrics (n.) The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light..
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..
Immerge :: Immerge (v. i.) To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun..
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..
Wallow :: Wallow (n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire..
Waftage :: Waftage (n.) Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water..
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