slovo | definícia |
media (mass) | media
- média |
media (msasasci) | media
- media |
media (encz) | media,média n: Zdeněk Brož |
media (encz) | media,mediální adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Media (gcide) | Medium \Me"di*um\, n.; pl. L. Media, E. Mediums. [L.
medium the middle, fr. medius middle. See Mid, and cf.
Medius.]
1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things;
intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically:
(a) Middle place or degree; mean.
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The just medium . . . lies between pride and
abjection. --L'Estrange.
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(b) (Math.) See Mean.
(c) (Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that
by which the extremes are brought into connection.
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2. A substance through which an effect is transmitted from
one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of
sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action
occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through
or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried
on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc.,
a person through whom the action of another being is said
to be manifested and transmitted.
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Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause
a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
--Bacon.
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I must bring together
All these extremes; and must remove all mediums.
--Denham.
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3. An average. [R.]
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A medium of six years of war, and six years of
peace. --Burke.
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4. A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain
sizes. See Paper.
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5. (Paint.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are
ground and prepared for application.
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6. (Microbiology) A source of nutrients in which a
microorganism is placed to permit its growth, cause it to
produce substances, or observe its activity under defined
conditions; also called culture medium or {growth
medium}. The medium is usually a solution of nutrients in
water, or a similar solution solidified with gelatin or
agar.
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7. A means of transmission of news, advertising, or other
messages from an information source to the public, also
called a news medium, such as a newspaper or radio; used
mostly in the plural form, i. e. news media or media.
See 1st media[2].
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Circulating medium, a current medium of exchange, whether
coin, bank notes, or government notes.
Ethereal medium (Physics), the ether.
Medium of exchange, that which is used for effecting an
exchange of commodities -- money or current
representatives of money.
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media (gcide) | media \me"di*a\ (m[=e]"d[i^]*[.a]), n. sing. & pl.,
1. 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.
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2. 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.
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Media (gcide) | Media \Me"di*a\, n.; pl. Mediae (-[=e]). [NL., fr. L. medius
middle.]
1. (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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media (foldoc) | media
1. Any kind of data including graphics, images,
audio and video, though typically excluding raw text or
executable code.
The term multimedia suggests a collection of different types
of media or the ability to handle such collections.
2. The physical object on which data is stored, as
opposed to the device used to read and write it.
3. The object at the physical layer that
carries data, typically an electrical or optical cable,
though, in a wireless network, the term refers to the space
through which radio waves propagate. Most often used in the
context of Media Access Control (MAC).
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