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Media vs. Supernatant — What's the Difference?

Media vs. Supernatant — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Media and Supernatant

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Media

An ancient region of Asia to the south-west of the Caspian Sea, corresponding approximately to present-day Azerbaijan, north-western Iran, and north-eastern Iraq. Originally inhabited by the Medes, the region was conquered in 550 BC by Cyrus the Great of Persia.

Supernatant

Denoting the liquid lying above a solid residue after crystallization, precipitation, centrifugation, or other process
Carefully transfer the supernatant fluid into a 15 ml centrifuge tube

Media

A plural of medium. See Usage Note at medium.

Supernatant

A volume of supernatant liquid
The supernatants were filtered and analysed

Media

(Linguistics) See medial.
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Supernatant

Floating on the surface.

Media

The middle, often muscular layer of the wall of a blood vessel.

Supernatant

The clear fluid above a sediment or precipitate.

Media

Something, such as an intermediate course of action, that occupies a position or represents a condition midway between extremes.

Supernatant

Lying or floating above a denser fluid, or above a solid sediment or precipitate (which has been separated by crystallisation, centrifugation etc.).

Media

A substance that propagates energy or signals through space via changes in its own state
Air acts as a medium for the transmission of sound waves.

Supernatant

The liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate; supernate

Media

The sparsely distributed gas and dust subsisting in the space between stars.

Supernatant

Material that floats on the surface of a liquid

Media

Supernatant

Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water.

Media

An agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred
The train was the usual medium of transportation in those days.

Supernatant

The liquid remaining after solids suspended in the liquid have been sedimented by gravity or by centrifugation. Contrasted with the solid sediment, or (in centrifugation) the pellet.

Media

A means of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television.

Supernatant

A liquid lying above a sediment (floating on the surface)

Media

Media(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The group of journalists and others who constitute the communications industry and profession.

Supernatant

Of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate;
The supernatant fat was skimmed off

Media

Pl. media(Computers)Any of various kinds of storage devices, such as hard drives or digital audiotape.

Media

Pl. mediums A person thought to have the power to communicate with the spirits of the dead or with agents of another world or dimension. Also called psychic.

Media

A surrounding environment in which something functions and thrives.

Media

The substance in which a specific organism lives and thrives.

Media

A culture medium.

Media

A specific kind of artistic technique or means of expression as determined by the materials used or the creative methods involved
The medium of lithography.

Media

The materials used in a specific artistic technique
Oils as a medium.

Media

A solvent with which paint is thinned to the proper consistency.

Media

(Chemistry) A filtering substance, such as filter paper.

Media

Occurring or being between two degrees, amounts, or quantities; intermediate
Ordered a medium coffee.

Media

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

Media

A voiced stop consonant.

Media

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

Media

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

Media

(historical) cuarto: a half-fanega, {{ngd}}

Media

Plural of medium

Media

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.

Media

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.

Media

The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.

Media

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

Media

(computing) multimedia
I have media files stored on an external hard drive.
Adjust media sound in multiple apps

Media

The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, (Computers) place your installation media into the device which will read it; (Microbiology) the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media.

Media

The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed with Monica Lewinsky for months.

Media

One of the sonant mutes

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