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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
- Vibration - n. - A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
- 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.
- Perception - n. - The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception.
- Mesocephalic - a. - Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic.
- 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.
- Cardiac - a. - Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.
- Sound - n. - The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.
- Money - n. - A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.
- Irrefrangible - a. - Not refrangible; that can not be refracted in passing from one medium to another.
- Mesorhine - a. - Having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.
- Twilight - n. - faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
- 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.
- Atmosphere - n. - A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.
- Express - a. - To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package.
- Contagion - n. - That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
- 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.
- Mezza voce - - With a medium fullness of sound.
- 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.
- Refrangible - a. - Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.
- Mesoseme - a. - Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.
- Pulsation - n. - A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
- Mezzo-soprano - a. - Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer.
- Excipient - n. - An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents.
- Jolly-boat - n. - A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.
- Hypnotism - n. - A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body.