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MASS MEDIUM
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Irregular inflected form: mass media
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
Synonyms:
mass medium; medium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mass medium" is a kind of...):
transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mass medium"):
broadcast medium; broadcasting (a medium that disseminates via telecommunications)
