Definition of "media" in английский

noun

1. (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.

2. (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.

3. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.

4. (zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

5. (historical) Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L

noun

1. plural of medium (only in certain senses)

2. (rare, nonstandard) plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)

noun

1. (often treated as uncountable) The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.

   • As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.

2. (often treated as uncountable) The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.

   • Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.

3. (usually with a definite article; often treated as uncountable) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

   • Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.

4. (computing) Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.

adjective

1. (computing) Clipping of multimedia.

   • I have media files stored on an external hard drive.
   • Adjust media sound in multiple apps