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media

Pronunciation: /ˈmiː.di.ə/

The English word “media” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  2. A voiced stop consonant.
  3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
  4. An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  5. Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
  6. The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
  7. The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
  8. The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
  9. Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.

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