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medium, n. and a. Pl. media, -iums.
[a. L. medium, neuter of medius middle, cogn. with mid a.]
A. n.
1. a. A middle quality, degree, or condition. Formerly also, something 
intermediate in nature or degree.  in a medium, intermediate (between).
1593 Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift (1876) 29 There is no concorde betweene water 
and fire, nor any medium betweene loue and hatred.
1618 E. Elton Exp. Rom. vii. (1622) 362 There is no medium: no middle nor 
indifferent state and condition betweene these two.
1626 Bacon Sylva 293 This Appetite is in a Medium between the other two.
1649 W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) To Husb., There is a Medium in all 
things.
1651 French Distill. v. 111 A saltish slime, and in tast..a Medium betwixt 
salt, and Nitre.
1663 Flagellum, or O. Cromwell (ed. 2) Pref., I place and reckon this 
Cromwell as a Medium or Mean, betwixt..Wallenstein..and Thomas Anello.
1752 J. Gill Trinity vi. 116 Between God and a creature there is no medium.
1770 Jortin Serm. (1771) VII. vi. 108 There is a medium between frantic zeal 
and sinful compliance.
1811 Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3), Recitative, a species of musical recitation 
forming the medium between air and rhetorical declamation.
1811 Byron Hints fr. Hor. lvii, Poesy between the best and worst No medium 
knows.
1820 I. Milner in Mary Milner Life (1842) 510 Is there no medium between 
going to Court, and going a hunting?
1869 Spurgeon J. Ploughm. Talk 28 There is a medium in all things, only 
blockheads go to extremes.
b. Moderation. Obs.
1693 Humours Town 88 They are generally Men of no Medium, but continually in 
Extreams.
1748 Smollett Rod. Rand. (1812) I. 4 He determined..to observe no medium 
but..sent her a peremptory order.
1780 W. Pitt in Ld. Stanhope Life I. 35 The use of the horse I assure you I 
do not neglect, in the properest medium.
c. A middle course, compromise. Obs.
1719 De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 33 When I let him know my Reason, he own'd it 
to be just, and offer'd me this Medium, that he [etc.].
d. Something intermediate in position. Obs.
1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 12/1 That the Inhabitants may not be obliged 
to pass out of a cold Place into a hot one, without a Medium of temperate 
Air.
2. Logic. The middle term of a syllogism; hence, a ground of proof or 
inference. Obs.
1584 Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 62 Let him..conclude the Apostles 
question, with his medium, argument, and reason.
1630 Randolph Aristippus Wks. (1875) 19 Your drinking is syllogism, where a 
pottle is the major terminus, and a pint the minor, a quart the medium.
1641 Vind. Smectymnuus v. 61 This we evinced by foure mediums out of 
Scripture.
1751 Wesley Wks. (1872) XIV. 168 An equivocal medium proves nothing.
1757 Sir J. Dalrymple Hist. Feudal Property (1758) 147 They had refused to 
subject estates tail to forfeiture, and on this medium, that who cannot 
alienate cannot forfeit.
1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India III. i. 33 To trace the media of proof from one 
link to another..is not, say the lawyers, the way to justice.
3. A (geometrical or arithmetical) mean; an average. Obs.
1612 Davies Why Ireland, etc. 39 The reuenew..did not rise vnto 10000. li. 
per annum, though the Medium be taken of the best seauen years.
1638 Wilkins New World iii. (1707) 30 Betwixt two Extreams there can be but 
one Medium.
1687 Petty Pol. Arith. (1690) 55 At a medium I reckon that the whole Fleet 
must be Men of three or four years growth.
1727 Swift Mod. Proposal Wks. 1755 II. ii. 62, I have reckoned upon a 
medium, that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds.
1731 Bailey vol. II. s.v., Arithmetical Medium, is that which is equally 
distant from each extreme.
Ibid., Geometrical Medium, is [etc.].
1788 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 84 The medium of the thermometer 
continues here at about 70.
1793 Smeaton Edystone L. 113 The medium of half an inch on a side.
1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. i. 94 Only thirty-three years, as a 
medium, are assigned to a reign.
4. a. Any intervening substance through which a force acts on objects at a 
distance or through which impressions are conveyed to the senses: applied, 
e.g., to the air, the ether, or any substance considered with regard to its 
properties as a vehicle of light or sound. Often fig.
1595 Chapman Ovids Banq. Sence D 2 margin, Sight is one of the three sences 
that hath his medium extrinsecally.
1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. vi. 33 To the Sight three things are 
required, the Obiect, the Organ, and the Medium.
1643 A. Ross Mel Heliconium 27 The air, which is the medium of musick and of 
all sounds.
1652 J. Smith Sel. Disc. i. 25 They shall no more behold the Divinity 
through the dark mediums that eclipse the blessed sight of it.
1709 Phil. Trans. XXVI. 368 Air is the only Medium for the Propagation of 
Sound.
1711 Addison Spect. No. 257 38 He therefore who looks upon the Soul through 
its outward Actions, often sees it through a deceitful Medium.
1742 Young Nt. Th. viii. 243 The Truth, thro' such a Medium seen, may make 
Impression deep.
1768-74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 443 Both visible and sonorous bodies act 
equally by mediums, one of light and the other of air, vibrating upon our 
organs.
1794 G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xv. 136 By a medium..is meant any 
pellucid or transparent body, which suffers light to pass through it.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 422 In passing into a denser medium, 
light is refracted towards the perpendicular.
1851 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 189 The liability incurred by the 
nation is refracted through so many media.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 100/1 The air around us forms the most important 
medium of sound to our organs of hearing.
1880 Bastian Brain iii. 60 To rudimentary aggregations of pigment, in some 
animals transparent media are added, serving to condense the light thereon.
b. The application of the word in sense 4 to the air, ether, etc. has given 
rise to the new sense: Pervading or enveloping substance; the substance or 
'element' in which an organism lives; hence fig. one's environment, 
conditions of life.
[1664 Power Exp. Philos. Pref. 11 The aetherial Medium (wherein all the 
Stars and Planets do swim).]
1865 Grote Plato I. v. 201 You cannot thus abstract any man from the social 
medium by which he is surrounded.
1873 Hamerton Intell. Life ix. v. (1875) 320 The general talk, which is 
nothing but a neutral medium in which intelligences float.
1876 L. Stephen Eng. Th. 18th C. I. i. 6 The gradual adaptation of the race 
to its medium.
1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 36/2 When the insulating medium, or, as it is 
called, the 'dielectric', is shellac.
1880 M. Arnold Lett. (1895) II. 184-5 The medium in which he [Burns] lived, 
Scotch peasants, Scotch Presbyterianism, and Scotch drink, is repulsive. 
Chaucer..pleases me more and more, and his medium is infinitely superior.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 406/1 Thoroughly conducted cultivations should 
decide in what medium the Schizomycete flourishes best.
5. a. An intermediate agency, means, instrument or channel. Also, 
intermediation, instrumentality: in phrase by or through the medium of. 
spec. of newspapers, radio, television, etc., as vehicles of mass 
communication. Also attrib. and in pl. (see media2).
1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xvi. 2 But yet is not of necessitie that 
Cogitations bee expressed by the Medium of Wordes.
1614 Raleigh Hist. World ii. v. 10. 309 Moses..wrought..by the medium of 
mens affections.
1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 179, I know the Medium to let you see A 
wonder.
1726 De Foe Hist. Devil ii. vi. (1840) 249 The devil has managed several 
secret operations by the medium or instrumentality of the cloven foot.
1775 Burke Sp. Conc. Amer. Wks. III. 31 The proposition is peace. Not peace 
through the medium of war.
1795 Gentl. Mag. 544/1 Some useful information..may..be hoped for through 
the medium of your curious Publication.
1811 Fuseli in Lect. Paint. iv. (1848) 438 They are the end, this the 
medium.
1856 Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. v. 186 The seal..except through the 
medium of his whiskers,..may be said..[to have] no sense of touch at all.
1866 Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. i. 16 They [Latin and Greek] were the media 
of the scholarship, the science, the theology of the Middle Age.
1880 Coach Builders' Art Jrnl. I. 63 Considering your Journal one of the 
best possible mediums for such a scheme.
1883 S. R. Gardiner Hist. Eng. II. xvi. 184 note, It seems..more probable 
that the tarts went backwards and forwards as media of a correspondence.
1898 Illingworth Div. Immanence vi. 136 He [Christ] ordained sacraments; 
selecting, as their media, the two..most universal religious rites.
1906 Mod. The shire Gazette is the best advertising medium in the country.
1967 M. McLuhan (title) The medium is the massage.
1968 Listener 28 Mar. 394/3 My recent visits to the theatre, together with 
my colour television set, have convinced me that McLuhan has it wrong. The 
medium impedes the message.
b. medium of circulation or exchange, circulating medium: something which 
serves as the ordinary representative of exchangeable value, and as the 
instrument of commercial transactions; in civilized countries usually coin 
or written promises or orders for the delivery of coin. In the American 
colonies often simply medium, chiefly used in speaking of the local paper 
currency.
1740 Conn. Col. Rec. (1874) VIII. 318 The expences of this government are 
likely to be very heavy..by reason..of a great scarcity of a medium of 
exchange.
1740 W. Douglass Disc. Curr. Brit. Plant. Amer. 6 Upon cancelling this Paper 
Medium all those Inconveniences did vanish.
1758 in B. P. Smith Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1878) 16 The discredit of our 
medium.
1828 P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 101 Bullion and paper, as mediums 
of circulation.
1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea Summary 135 The adoption of a medium of 
exchange.
1838 Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) II. xvii. 128 The only medium for 
representing their property was bills of exchange.
1884 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 837 Media of Exchange: some Notes on the Precious 
Metals and their Equivalents.
6. a. Painting. Any liquid 'vehicle' (as oil, water, albumen, etc.) with 
which pigments are mixed to render them capable of being used in painting. 
Also, any of the varieties of painting as determined by the nature of the 
vehicle employed, as oil-painting, water-colour, tempera, fresco, etc.
1854 Fairholt Dict. Art, Medium, the menstruum, or liquid vehicle, with 
which the dry pigments are ground and made ready for the artist's use.
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 477/2 There is no man to-day who understands his 
medium [viz. water-colour] more perfectly.
1903 Edin. Rev. Apr. 454 If his colours, his gilding, his mediums were of 
inferior quality, they were confiscated.
b. Photogr. A varnish used as a vehicle in 'retouching' (see quots.).
1890 J. Hubert Retouching (1903) 23 If your medium will not take the 
blacklead readily, the former may be thickened.
1892 Phot. Ann. II. 201 The simplest medium to render the surface of the 
negative suitable for marking upon is made by dissolving white powdered 
resin in turpentine... The negative to be retouched is prepared by rubbing 
upon it..a drop of the medium.
7. Theatr. A screen fixed in front of a source of light in order to throw a 
coloured light upon the stage.
1859 G. A. Sala Gas-light & D., Getting up Pantomime, Gas pipes with 
coloured screens called 'mediums'.
1873 Routledge's Yng. Gentl. Mag. 282/1 Fish-tail burners, guarded by curved 
metal reflecting hoods on the back and by wire work on the front side..so as 
to allow of red or green tammy mediums being dropped over each row.
1933 P. Godfrey Back-Stage vii. 90 'Two more floods up-stage, Bill,' says 
the stage-manager. 'What mediums, sir amber or pink?'
8. Applied to a person.
a. gen. An intermediary agent, mediator.
1817 T. E. Bowdich, etc. Mission to Ashantee i. iii. (1819) 63 This man..is 
our only safe medium, and interprets to the King anxiously and impressively.
b. Spiritualism, etc. A person who is supposed to be the organ of 
communications from departed spirits. Hence also applied to a clairvoyant or 
a person under hypnotic control.
1853 H. Spicer Sights & Sounds 88 This lady was a medium, and as the subject 
of 'spirit rappings' was already [etc.].
1854 Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. xiv. 303 Bulwer is in the 
hands of a set of mediums, and passes his time in conversation with his dead 
daughter.
1888 Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. 639 Attempts to pry by the help of 'mediums' 
into the book of Fate.
9. Senses derived from the adj.
a. nonce-use. A person of the middle class.
1837 T. Hook Jack Brag ii, The tip-toppers are livelier than the mediums.
b. A soldier of 'medium' equipment, between 'light' and 'heavy'. (Cf. quot. 
1876 in B. 1.)
1889 N. & Q. 7th Ser. VIII. 111/1 The 4th Dragoon Guards are no longer 
'Heavies', but 'Mediums'.
Ibid., Thirteen regiments of 'Mediums', comprising the seven regiments of 
Dragoon Guards, numbered 1 to 7 [etc.].
c. A kind of cotton goods.
1777 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1906) XLII. 319 There cargo is Salt..37 
bales, cases, hhds of mediums [etc.].
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xviii. 4 India twills, silicias, casbans, 
and mediums.
10. A medium-dated security.
1968 [see medium-dated adj., sense B. 3 below].
1974 Daily Tel. 25 May 20/6 The popularity among high tax-payers of low 
coupon mediums such as Treasury 3 p.c. 1979 is not all that difficult to 
comprehend.
1975 Times 25 Apr. 24/7 'Shorts', after being 12 point higher at one stage, 
ended mixed... 'Longs' and 'mediums' were up to 34 point up.
B. attrib. and adj.
1. a. Intermediate between two degrees, amounts, qualities, or classes.
1796 C. Marshall Garden. ix. (1813) 114 A good medium way is to plant the 
deciduous sorts [of trees] the beginning of March.
1859 Darwin Orig. Spec. iv. (1873) 92 A medium form may often long endure.
1876 Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. s.v. Cavalry, In the British army 
cavalry is classed as heavy, medium, and light cavalry.
1884 Bath Herald 27 Dec. 6/5 The offal..is separated into broad bran, medium 
bran, and sharps.
1903 Edin. Rev. Apr. 493 There is a tendency for land to get into the hands 
of medium and large proprietors.
1905 J. Heywood Mus. Churches 17 Average choir boys cannot recite on a low 
note without being liable to use the thick register or chest voice instead 
of the medium register.
b. Fencing. medium guard: see quot. 1767.
1747 J. Godfrey Sci. Defence 21 Here are four Guards, viz. Inside, Outside, 
Medium, and Hanging.
Ibid. 22 The Medium is the Small-Sword Posture, and that alone may properly 
be called a guard.
1767 Fergusson Dict. Terms Small Sword 13 Medium Guard, the arm, wrist, and 
sword in this guard ought to be kept in the same height as the Quarte, and 
the edge of the sword perpendicular to the ground.
c. The designation of a size of paper between royal and demy.
The sheet of medium writing and drawing paper usually measures 22-1712 
inches; in U.S., 23-18. The sheet of medium printing paper is usually 24   
19.
1711 Act 10 Anne c. 18 37 For..all Paper..called..Medium Fine..the Summe of 
Six Shillings for every Reame... Genoa Medium..Two Shillings and Six Pence 
for every Reame.
1774 M. Mackenzie Maritime Surv. 105 A Folio Observation book of 4 Quires 
medium Paper.
1859 Stationer's Handbk. 20, 73.
d. Of sherry, wine, etc., having a flavour intermediate between dry and 
sweet. So medium dry, medium sweet adj. phrs.
1906 Hatch, Mansfield Price List 11 First Quality, Extra or Medium Dry.
Ibid. 20 Light, Medium Sweet.
1933 H. W. Allen Sherry iii. 46 This medium wine is likely to find its way 
into a blend of Amoroso.
1951 R. Postgate Plain Man's Guide to Wine iii. 57 Their labels contain 
nothing more informative than 'Best South African Sherry: Medium Dry', or 
some such phrases.
1960 I. Jefferies Dignity & Purity i. 18, I expect you'd like sherry, 
wouldn't you? Medium?
1961 Twining Bros. Wine List 2 Amontillado Rico (Medium Dry)... Ancient 
Browne Rednutt (Medium Sweet).
1969 Guardian 13 Feb. 9/1 The medium dry white wine.
1972 A. Hunter Vivienne viii. 101 The waiter..remembered the Major's buying 
Mrs. Selly a drink, a medium sherry.
1972 Country Life 23 Mar. 673/3 One can make it [sc. mead] very dry or quite 
sweet... I intended to make mine medium sweet.
1973 J. Porter It's Murder with Dover v. 45 He sipped his medium sweet 
cider.
1974 'A. Gilbert' Nice Little Killing iv. 61 Maybe a Dubonnet or a medium 
sherry spirits never.
e. The designation of meat cooked between 'well done' and 'rare'. So medium 
done, medium rare adj. phrs. (cf. rare a.2 b).
1939 P. K. Newill Good Food iv. 72 Beef..medium..22-25 [minutes per pound].
1953 J. & M. Roberson Meat Cookbk. ii. 47 Beefsteaks medium 1 in. 7 min. on 
each side.
1968 L. O'Donnell Face of Crime (1969) vii. 104 His own steak was just as 
ordered: medium rare and delicious.
1972 'E. McBain' Sadie when she Died iv. 45 Carella ordered prime ribs, 
medium rare.
1972 House & Garden Feb. 111/1 Steak au poivre was ordered bleu..but arrived 
medium done.
1975 M. Kenyon Mr Big xix. 176, I never saw myself..tellin' Jeeves to do the 
steak medium.
2. Average, mean. Obs.
1670 Pettus Fodinae Reg. 9 Two Tun and a quarter of Oar make a Tun of Metal 
at a medium rate 3l. 10s.
1748 Anson's Voy. ii. v. 182 The medium heat all the year round will be 66.
1799 Hull Advert. 14 Sept. 3/2 Both of which may be accounted medium years.
1800 Misc. Tracts in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 72/2 The medium height of a 
Fahrenheit's thermometer was between 80 and 82.
3. Comb.
a. With ns. used attrib., forming adjs., as medium-grade, -haul, -heel, 
-pace, -range, -rise, -term, -weight adjs.;
b. parasynthetic, as medium-coloured, -paced, -powered, -priced, -sized, 
adjs.;
medium-dated a. (see quots. 1958 and 1968).
1891 C. T. C. James Rom. Rigmarole 75 *Medium-coloured hair.
1948 Financial Times 5 May 1/6 Among *medium-dated stocks War Loan 312 per 
cent was a good spot.
1953 Economist 25 July 287/3 In the gilt-edged market interest at first was 
concentrated upon the 'shorts' and the medium dated issues.
1958 'Nedlaw' Your Guide to Stocks & Shares iii. 78 Medium dated, a 
gilt-edged security having more than five years but less than ten years to 
run to its final maturity or redemption date.
1968 P. A. S. Taylor Dict. Econ. Terms 70 Medium-dated, 'mediums'. 
Securities with a life of between five and fifteen years.
1877 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 174 A stratum of *medium-grade ore.
1963 Punch 4 Sept. 352/3 The new *medium-haul Trident.
1965 'W. Haggard' Hard Sell iii. 31 SAGA was building a medium-haul 
aircraft.
1974 Times 14 Mar. 5/4 The new dishes now being served on all medium-haul 
flights.
1973 A. Roy Sable Night iii. 24 Dark red suede *medium-heel shoes.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 16 May 4/2 Slow and *medium-pace bowlers.
1884 Lillywhite's Cricket Ann. 103 A straight *medium-paced bowler.
1963 Bird & Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car 41 Georges Richard himself was 
more interested in the *medium-powered, medium-priced car.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. 15/3 The most satisfactory *medium-priced 
cottons on the market.
1972 E. Hargreaves Fair Green Weed v. 67 They were booked in at a 
medium-priced hotel.
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Aug. 2/6 But it could be of real value to *medium 
and short-range planes.
1974 'F. Clifford' Grosvenor Square Goodbye ii. 166 The provision of a 
medium-range aircraft at Heathrow.
1968 Guardian 19 June 3/3 '*Medium-rise' housing flats going up to only four 
or five stories.
1972 Times 17 June 8/8 Aaron Wallis lived in Battersea, in a medium-rise 
block of no great character.
1882 J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xiv, He was a *medium-sized, full-bodied 
man.
1958 Spectator 15 Aug. 216/3 A high credit rating for *medium-term loans.
1965 McGraw-Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 321 A medium-term forecast made in July, 
1963, could cover the period from January, 1965, through 1967.
1969 Times 5 May 22/2 The Midland Bank Finance Corporation..specialises in 
medium-term credit.
1971 Jrnl. Gen Psychol. LXXXIV. 243 Span memory is distinct from medium-term 
memory in the case of semantic material.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. 282/3 Men's *medium weight, natural wool color 
undershirts.
1964 McCall's Sewing i. 11/1 Select medium-weight fabrics which drape nicely 
and add roundness.
1968 M. S. Livingston Particle Physics i. 5 Medium-weight nuclei are the 
most tightly bound and the most stable.
c. attrib. and Comb. in sense 8 b.
1872 Schele de Vere Americanisms 245 A Circle is held for Medium 
Developments and Spiritual Manifestations at Bloomfield-street every Sunday.
1886 W. James in Proc. Amer. Soc. Psychical Res. 105 Her pupils contract in 
the medium-trance.
1919 J. M. Keynes Econ. Consequences Peace iii. 37 Mr. Lloyd George's 
unerring, almost medium-like, sensibility to every one immediately round 
him.
1972 A. Ford Life beyond Death i. 49 'I'm willing to go along with this 
stuff,' a medium baiter said one time, 'if you'll positively guarantee to 
bring me Socrates.'
d. Special collocations:
medium bomber, a bomber intermediate between the heavy and the light;
medium close-up Cinematogr., a cinematographic or television shot 
intermediate between a medium shot (see below) and a close-up; also called 
medium-close shot;
medium frequency, an intermediate frequency (of oscillation); spec. in 
Broadcasting, a frequency of a medium wave, viz. one between 300 kilohertz 
and three megahertz;
medium shot Cinematogr., a cinematographic or television shot intermediate 
between a close-up and a long shot;
medium wave Broadcasting, a radio wave with wavelength between a hundred 
metres and a kilometre (see quot. 1929 for former limits); freq. attrib. 
(usu. hyphenated).
1935 Flight 22 Aug. 204a/2 The specialized light bomber..may..be supplanted 
eventually by the very fast *medium bomber.
1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 161/1 A medium bomber can carry enough 
incendiary bombs to start 150 separate simultaneous fires.
1956 U.S. Air Force Dict. 321/2 Medium bomber,..currently (1956), a bomber 
having a gross weight, including bomb load, of between 100,000 and 250,000 
pounds..; a medium bomber is thought of as having medium range, and as being 
best used at medium altitudes, as well as having a medium gross weight.
1971 E. Luttwak Dict. Mod. War 45/2 'Medium' bombers and 'light' bombers 
retain a residual role in 'tactical' situations.
1957 Manvell & Huntley Technique Film Music ii. 34 Long track, mostly in 
medium or *medium-close shot, with one large pull-back during the 
market-place scene.
1933 A. Brunel Filmcraft 147 Scene 168. *Medium close up. The slave-driven 
father looks desperately round again.
1948 E. Lindgren Art of Film v. 82 A medium close-up of his body on which 
shadows of the prison bars form a pattern.
1950 E. E. Brodbeck Handbk. Basic Motion-Pict. Techniques 103 Medium close 
up... Such a scene shows the most vital part of the subject plus some of 
that part's surrounding area.
1969 W. Rutherford Gallows Set vi. 77 David in medium close up came on the 
monitor screens.
1920 Whittaker's Electr. Engineer's Pocket-Bk. (ed. 4) 348 The result..has 
been the adoption of two frequencies, a *medium frequency for general power 
and lighting, and a low frequency for systems supplying rotary converters.
1946 Happy Landings (Air Ministry) July 9/1 The radio compass, when tuned to 
any medium frequency, was seriously affected by thunderstorms... The compass 
pointer did not point towards the M/F station selected.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. I. 363/2 European medium-frequency 
(mf) broadcasting channels are assigned at 9-kc intervals rather than the 
10-kc intervals used in the Western hemisphere.
1933 A. Brunel Filmcraft 150 Scene 488. *Medium shot. The waiter pouring out 
champagne into the glasses on Pauline's table.
1937 Discovery Nov. 330/2 The [television] cameras are also fitted with 
lenses of suitable focal length for getting long-shots, medium-shots and 
close-ups as desired.
1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing ii. 81 In a long-lasting shot (33) Bill 
slows down as he approaches the camera and finally comes to rest in medium 
shot.
1966 H. P. Manoogian Film-Maker's Art vi. 219 In traditional editing the 
scene is established, usually in a long shot, and as the action within the 
scene proceeds a number of medium shots and close-ups are taken to relate 
that action.
1975 New Yorker 26 May 32/3, I think we can get around the full lotus by 
having a stunt man do it, and using medium and long shots in a half-lit 
room.
1928 Wireless World 7 Nov. 626/2 It will..be best to concentrate on maximum 
efficiency in *medium-wave transformers.
1929 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engin. LXVIII. 22/2 The definitions were fixed as 
follows [by the International Radio Technical Committee]... Medium waves: 
kilocycles/sec 1500 to 100; m 200 to 3000.
1938 D. H. Surgeoner Aircraft Radio iii. 23 Medium waves are..suitable for 
both communications and direction-finding and these can be transmitted over 
reasonable distances.
1961 Radio Times 6 Apr. 9/1 The Network Three transmitters, both medium-wave 
and VHF, will be used for one channel..and the BBC's television sound 
transmitters for the other.
1974 Medium wave [see long wave s.v. long a.1 18].

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