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Definition of medium

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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..

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Refract :: Refract (n.) To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium..

Intermediums :: Intermediums (pl. ) of Intermediu.

Refraction :: 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..

Diacoustics :: Diacoustics (n.) That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.

Perception :: 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..

Waftage :: Waftage (n.) Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water..

Diffusivity :: Diffusivity (n.) Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium..

Species :: Species (n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie..

Jolly-boat :: Jolly-boat (n.) A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.

Mediums :: Mediums (pl. ) of Mediu.

Medium :: Medium (n.) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection.

Medium :: Medium (n.) See Mean.

Pulsation :: Pulsation (n.) A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds..

Irrefrangible :: Irrefrangible (a.) Not refrangible; that can not be refracted in passing from one medium to another.

Gross :: Gross (superl.) Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium..

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium..

Mesocephalic :: Mesocephalic (a.) Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic.

Neutral :: Neutral (a.) Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced.

Medium :: 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..

Express :: Express (a.) To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package..