Medium
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Medium may refer to:
Aviation
- Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design
- Medium bomber, a class of war plane
Communication
See also: Media#Communication
- Media (communication), storage and/or transmission tools used to store and deliver information or data
- Transmission medium, in physics and telecommunications, any material substance which can propagate waves or energy
- Optical medium, material through which electromagnetic waves propagate
- Medium of instruction, any language or other tools used to educate, train, or instruct
Natural science
See also: Media#Life sciences
- Excitable medium, a non-linear dynamic system which has the capacity to propagate a wave
- Active laser medium (also called gain medium or lasing medium), a quantum system that allows amplification of power (gain) of waves passing through (usually by stimulated emission)
- Growth medium (or culture medium), in biotechnology, an object in which microorganisms or cells experience growth
- Interplanetary medium, in astronomy, material which fills the solar system
- Interstellar medium, in astronomy, the matter and energy content that exists between the stars within a galaxy
- Medium, a gradation of cooked meat
- Optical medium, in physics, a material through with electromagnetic waves propagate.
- Porous medium, in engineering and earth sciences, a material that allows fluid to pass through it, such as sand
- Processing medium, in industrial engineering, a material that plays a role in manufacturing processes
Entertainment
- Artistic medium, a material used by an artist or designer to create a work; see List of artistic media
- The Medium, an opera by Gian-Carlo Menotti
- The Medium (1951 film), a film version of the opera directed by Menotti
- The Medium (1992 film), an English film from Singapore
- Medium (TV series), a television series about a medium (psychic intermediary) working as a consultant for a district attorney's office
- Tau (rapper), a Polish rapper formerly known as "Medium"
Other
- Mediumship, the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings
- Medium Productions, a record label
- The Medium (Rutgers), an entertainment weekly at Rutgers University
- The Medium (UTM), a student newspaper at the University of Toronto Mississauga
- Medium pace bowling, another name for fast bowling in the sport of cricket
- Medium (website), a blog-publishing platform
See also
- Media, another disambiguation page
- All pages beginning with "medium"
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