Re: [microsound] tool and medium

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> >[medium == message] || [medium != message]
>
>   All consistent axiomatic
>   formulations of number theory
>   include undecidable propositions.
>
> id est:
>
>   The following statement is true.
>   The preceding statement is false.
>
> >'medium' (latin ...)
> >[Akira Rabelais ?]
>
>          ok, hehh.
>
>                   Akira 'the tool' Rabelais
>
> 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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