media

noun9

1. •
   the newspapers, radio and television stations and other services that bring news to the public

   • 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. •
   The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

   • Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
5. •
   The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
6. •
   (old-fashioned) A voiced stop consonant.
7. •
   One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
8. •
   An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
9. •
   (historical) Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L

adjective1

1. •
   Clipping of multimedia.

   • I have media files stored on an external hard drive.

noun2

1. •
   (historical) A geographic region and ancient satrapy of the Persian Empire in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes.
2. •
   (historical) A possible ancient kingdom ruled by the Medes from approximately 700 to 550 BCE, whose extent and sometimes even existence is debated.