Media (disambiguation)

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Media/medium

Media is the plural form of certain meanings of the noun medium. See Medium for additional meanings.

There are several meanings in communication:

• The media as a collective noun refers to the news media.
• Media can refer to mass media content distribution channels.
• Multimedia may refer to the use of multiple media of communication, such as text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity. It may also refer to computer data storage devices, especially those used to store multimedia content.
• Media can refer to digital data storage devices, or digital or analog devices used to store sound recordings, and video recordings.
• /media, a directory on Unix-like file systems.

Other meanings

• Media is a music album by The Faint.
• Media is a traditional name for the star Delta Sagittarii.

There are several places with the name Media:

• Media, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Media, Illinois, USA.
• Media is an alternate spelling for the country of the Medes.

In anatomy, media (singular form; the plural is mediae) refers to the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective tissue and muscular tissue as in tunica media, between the tunica interna and tunica externa.