Medium

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Medium may refer to:

Science and technology

Astronomy

• Interplanetary medium, material that fills the solar system
• Interstellar medium, the matter and energy between a galaxy's stars

Aviation

• Medium bomber, a class of warplane
• Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design

Communication

• Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
• Medium of instruction, a language or other tool used to educate, train, or instruct

Wave physics

• Transmission medium, in physics and telecommunications, any material substance which can propagate waves or energy
  • 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)
  • Optical medium, in physics, a material through with electromagnetic waves propagate
• Excitable medium, a non-linear dynamic system which has the capacity to propagate a wave

Other uses in science and technology

• Data storage medium, a storage container in computing
• Growth medium (or culture medium), in biotechnology, an object in which microorganisms or cells experience growth
• 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• The Medium (1921 film), a German silent film
• The Medium (1951 film), a film version of the opera directed by Menotti
• The Medium (1960 film), an Australian television play
• The Medium (1992 film), an English film from Singapore
• The Medium (2021 film), a Thai film
• Medium, a series of Indian comedy-drama films
  • Hindi Medium, 2017 film by Saket Chaudhary
  • Angrezi Medium (English Medium), 2020 film by Homi Adajania

Periodicals

• The Medium (Rutgers), an entertainment weekly at Rutgers University
• The Medium (University of Toronto Mississauga), a student newspaper at the University of Toronto Mississauga

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• List of art media (plural: media), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work
• Medium (TV series), an American television series starring Patricia Arquette about a medium (psychic intermediary) working as a consultant for a district attorney's office
• Medium (website), a publishing platform
• Medium Productions, a record label
• The Medium, a 1946 opera by Gian-Carlo Menotti
• Medium (band), an American rock band
• The Medium (video game), a 2021 psychological horror video game developed by Bloober Team.

People

• Medium, a practitioner of mediumship, the practice of purportedly mediating communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings
• Tau (rapper) (born 1986), Polish rapper formerly known as "Medium"

Other uses

• Medium, a doneness (gradation of cooked meat)
• Medium pace bowling, another name for fast bowling in the sport of cricket

See also

• Channel (disambiguation)
• Conduit (disambiguation)
• Media (disambiguation)
• Median (disambiguation)
• Meidum, a pyramid in Egypt
• All pages with titles beginning with Medium 

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This page was last edited on 4 September 2023, at 19:16