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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