Medium

The word medium (from Latin, in which it means, "the one in the middle") can have different meanings in different contexts. Usually it has something to do with either a material substance, or a form of mediation.

Medium/media

When medium is used as the singuar of media, it can have several different meanings.

In communications and technology:

A transmission medium.
A given type of mass media.
A given type of recording medium
Interactive media
Scientific meanings:

In optics, a medium (optics) is something that is homogeneous on lengthscales comparable with the wavelength of the light being considered.
In biotechnology, a growth medium.
In chemistry, a solvent.
In biology, an environment in the middle of which an organism lives; e.g. "fish require an aqueous medium."
In medicine and paleontology, a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed.
In astronomy, the interplanetary medium or the interstellar medium.
An excitable medium.
In art:

A liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter.
The type of physical material with which a work of art is created. (See: Art techniques and materials.)

Medium/mediums

Certain other uses of the word medium have the plural mediums.

In everyday life a size that is in the middle (T-shirts can be S, M, L, XL or XXL) between very little and very large, average or mean in a range of sizes or conditions. Usually, one of only a few sizes, rather than many. For example, items such as clothes or drinks at a fast food restaurant might come in three sizes: small, medium, and large.
A state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium".
In parapsychology, a spiritual medium is a person who claims to serve as an intermediary between the living and the dead.

Other meanings

Medium is the title of a 2005 American television series.
MEDIUM is an Architectural design company based in Montreal Canada.

Quotations

Marshall McLuhan was famous for saying "The medium is the message."

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.

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