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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Medium \Me"di*um\, n.; pl L. {Media}, {E}. {Mediums}. [L.
medium the middle, fr medius middle. See {Mid}, and cf
{Medius}.]
1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things
intervening body or quantity. Hence specifically:
a Middle place or degree; mean
The just medium . . . lies between pride and
abjection. --L'Estrange.
b (Math.) See {Mean}.
c (Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that
by which the extremes are brought into connection.
2. 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.
Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause
a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried
--Bacon.
I must bring together All these extremes; and must
remove all mediums. --Denham.
3. An average. [R.]
A medium of six years of war, and six years of
peace. --Burke.
4. A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain
sizes. See {Paper}.
5. (Paint.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are
ground and prepared for application.
{Circulating medium}, a current medium of exchange, whether
coin, bank notes, or government notes.
{Ethereal medium} (Physics), the ether.
{Medium of exchange}, that which is used for effecting an
exchange of commodities -- money or current
representatives of money.
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