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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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Etymology of 'Media'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Media" Quotes from Famous Books

... we had hoped to make this a quiet hearing, without undue publicity. But we cannot deny the news media the privilege of covering it, unless you wish to claim ...

— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... raising a hat turned out equally simple, and the result of all the trials was only to increase my skepticism as to the whole doctrine of unknown forces and media of communication between one mind and another. I am now likely to remain a skeptic as to every branch of "occult science" until I find some manifestation of its reality more conclusive than any I have ...

— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb

... encoding mathematical formulas as LaTeX achieves the goal of "readable by humans" on the strength of LaTeX encoding being widely used in the physics and mathematics communities when writing formulas in E-mail and other ASCII media. Just as one is free to to transliterate Greek in an Etext, one can use ASCII ...

— People of Africa • Edith A. How

... lent the ganta-measure to the monkey, who thanked him and hurried home. Before he returned it to the owner the next morning, he put a peso, a fifty-centavo piece, a peseta, and a media-peseta in the cracks ...

— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler

... feature of interest in all Professor Bjerknes experiments has been the remarkably close analogy which exists between the phenomena exhibited in his mechanical experiments in water and other media and those of magnetism and of electricity, and it may be of some interest if we here recapitulate some of the more striking ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various

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