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- Medium - n. - That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.
- Medium - n. - See Mean.
- Medium - n. - The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
- Medium - n. - A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted.
- Medium - n. - An average.
- Medium - n. - A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper.
- Medium - n. - The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application.
- Medium - a. - Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.
- Medium-sized - a. - Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man.
- Mediums - pl. - of Medium
- Mesocephalic - a. - Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.
- Average - n. - Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
- Green-eyed - a. - Seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts.
- Pulsation - n. - A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
- Mesocephalic - a. - Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic.
- Mesaticephalic - a. - Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.
- Refract - n. - To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.
- Conventionalizw - v. t. - To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.
- 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.
- Neutral - a. - Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced.
- Atmosphere - n. - A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.
- 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.
- Jolly-boat - n. - A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.
- Dialyzer - n. - The instrument or medium used to effect chemical dialysis.
- Settlement - n. - A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mediate - a. - Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
- Refrangible - a. - Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.
- Medium - a. - Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.
- Mezza voce - - With a medium fullness of sound.
- Mesoseme - a. - Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.
- Spitzenburgh - n. - A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.
- 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.
- Materialize - v. t. - To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.