Medium

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see Mean.

II. Medium ·noun An Average.

III. Medium ·noun The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application.

IV. Medium ·noun A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. ·see Paper.

V. Medium ·noun The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection.

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

VII. Medium ·noun That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

VIII. Medium ·noun 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.

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