Medium

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Medium may refer to:

Communication

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

Art

• Medium (arts), or media, materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work

Science and technology

• 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)
• Data storage medium, a storage container in computing
• 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
• 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
• Transmission medium, in physics and telecommunications, any material substance which can propagate waves or energy

Entertainment

• The Medium, an opera by Gian-Carlo Menotti

Publications

• Medium (website), a blog-publishing platform
• The Medium (Rutgers), an entertainment weekly at Rutgers University
• The Medium (UTM), a student newspaper at the University of Toronto Mississauga

Music

• Medium Productions, a record label
• Tau (rapper), a Polish rapper formerly known as "Medium"

Film and television

• 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
• Medium (TV series), a television series starring Patricia Arquette about a medium (psychic intermediary) working as a consultant for a district attorney's office

Other uses

• Mediumship, the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings
• Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design
• Medium bomber, a class of war plane
• Medium, a gradation of cooked meat
• Medium pace bowling, another name for fast bowling in the sport of cricket

See also

• Media (disambiguation)
• Conduit (disambiguation)
• Channel (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "medium"