- 1a way of communicating information, etc. to people the medium of radio/television electronic/audio-visual media Television is the modern medium of communication. A T-shirt can be an excellent medium for getting your message across. The plural in this meaning is usually media. see mass media, media
- 2something that is used for a particular purpose English is the medium of instruction (= the language used to teach other subjects). Video is a good medium for learning a foreign language.
- 3the material or the form that an artist, a writer, or a musician uses the medium of paint/poetry/drama Watercolor is his favorite medium.
- 4(biology) a substance that something exists or grows in or that it travels through The bacteria were growing in a sugar medium.
- 5(med‧i‧ums) a person who claims to be able to communicate with the spirits of dead people Idioms
something that is in the middle between two choices or two ways of doing something She tried to strike a happy medium between making the questions too hard and making them too easy.
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