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noun

media n.

The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, (Computers) place your installation media into the device which will read it; (Microbiology) the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media.

The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed with Monica Lewinsky for months.

Media n. (pl. mediae)

(Phonetics) One of the sonant mutes beta, delta, gamma (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, pi, tau, kappa (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) phi, theta, chi (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... increase in the elastic tissue and connective tissue elements occurs in some cases, also proliferation of the endothelial cells, which serve to irregularly narrow and, in some instances, obliterate the lumen of the vessel. Arteries and veins are both affected. Hyaline degeneration of the media also occurs. The process ...

— Glaucoma - A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago - Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 • Various

... industrial villages, gathered round some single large factory or "works." The growing facilities of communication with large towns at increased distances, afforded by recent expansions of railway service, and by improvements in telegraphic and telephonic media, have done something towards this form of decentralisation. Round Manchester and other larger northern manufacturing towns an increasing number of factories are springing up; in the United States the same phenomenon ...

— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

... was an influx from the 'spirit world,' 'confirming the faith of many disciples' who had lived among Believers for years, and extending throughout all the eighteen societies, making media by the dozen, whose various exercises, not to be suppressed even in their public meetings, rendered it imperatively necessary to close them all to the world during a period of seven years, in consequence ...

— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff

... a media noche, Paristeis reyna A un Dios infinite Dentro de un establo. Y a media dia, Los Angeles van cantando Paz y abundancia De la gloria de Dios ...

— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant

... articles of belief are Belief in the moderate figures of "thirty thousand media in the United States in 1853"; and in two million five hundred thousand spiritualists in the same country of composed minds, in 1855, "professing to have arrived at their convictions of spiritual communication from personal experience"; and in "an average rate of increase ...

— Contributions to All The Year Round • Charles Dickens

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