MEDIUMとは

発音

• enPR: mē'diəm, IPA^(key): /ˈmiːdɪəm/
• 韻: -iːdiəm

名詞

medium (複数形 media または mediums)

1. (複数形 media または mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
2. (複数形 media または mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
   • Francis Bacon

     Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.

   • Denham

     I must bring together / All these extremes; and must remove all mediums.

3. (複数形 media または mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
4. (複数形 media または mediums, 工学) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
5. (複数形 media または mediums, microbiology) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
   • 1996, Samuel Baron (editor), Medical Microbiology:

     In some instances one can take advantage of differential carbohydrate fermentation capabilities of microorganisms by incorporating one or more carbohydrates in the medium along with a suitable pH indicator. Such media are called differential media (e.g., eosin methylene blue または MacConkey agar) and are commonly used to isolate enteric bacilli.

6. (複数形 media または mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
7. (複数形 mediums または media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
8. (複数形 mediums または media, painting) A tool used for painting or drawing.

   Acrylics, oils, charcoal, and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.

9. (複数形 mediums, spiritualism) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
10. (複数形 mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
11. (複数形 mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
12. (複数形 mediums, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (または other stout in some regions).
13. A middle place or degree.

    a happy medium

    • L'Estrange

      The just medium […] lies between pride and abjection.

14. (dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
    • Burke

      a medium of six years of war, and six years of peace

15. (logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.

派生語

• (microbiology, nutrient solution): differential medium

形容詞

medium (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Arithmetically average.
2. Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
3. Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:intermediate

派生語

• medium wave, mediumwave

関連する語

• mean
• mediate
• mediation
• mediator
• median
• mediocre
• mediocrity

副詞

medium (comparative more medium, superlative most medium)

1. to a medium extent

同意語

• mediumly

Further reading

• medium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• medium in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• edimmu

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.um/, [ˈmɛ.di.ũ]

形容詞

medium

1. inflection of medius:
   1. masculine accusative singular
   2. neuter nominative singular
   3. neuter accusative singular
   4. neuter vocative singular

名詞

medium n (genitive mediī); second declension

1. middle, center, medium, midst
2. community, public, publicity

Inflection

Second declension.

派生語

• e medio abeo
• in medio

派生した語

名詞

medium

1. accusative singular of medius
2. genitive singular of medius

参照

• medium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    
  • (ambiguous) the middle ages: media quae vocatur aetas
    
  • (ambiguous) manhood: aetas constans, media, firmata, corroborata (not virilis)
    
  • (ambiguous) to remove a person: e or de medio tollere
    
  • (ambiguous) to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave a thing undecided: aliquid in medio, in dubio relinquere (Cael. 20. 48)
    
  • (ambiguous) elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
    
  • (ambiguous) to bring a subject forward into discussion: in medium proferre aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to publish, make public: in medio ponere (proponere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to break off in the middle of the conversation: medium sermonem abrumpere (Verg. Aen. 4. 388)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be neutral: medium esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be neutral: medium se gerere
    
  • (ambiguous) the centre of the marching column: agmen medium (Liv. 10. 41)
    
  • (ambiguous) the centre: media acies
    
  • (ambiguous) let us leave that undecided: hoc in medio relinquamus