媒体

• 読み: ばいたい
• ローマ字: baitai
• 漢字の分解: 媒 (bai) — intermediary, go-between; 体 (tai/karada) — body, substance
• 発音: /ba.i.ta.i/

意味

Medium; carrier; a substance or channel through which something is transmitted, conveyed, or communicated. Includes physical media, biological vectors, and information media.

A noun used across physics, biology, communications, and media studies. In physics, a medium transmits waves (e.g. air for sound). In biology, a 媒体 (vector) carries and transmits a pathogen. In journalism and marketing, 広告媒体 refers to advertising channels. The word is broader and more formal than メディア, though the two are often interchangeable in media contexts.

例文

1. 空気は音波を伝える媒体として機能するが、真空中では音は伝わらない。
2. インターネットは情報を瞬時に世界中に届ける最も強力な媒体の一つだ。
3. 蚊が媒体となってマラリア原虫を宿主から宿主へと運ぶ。

使い方ガイド

場面: physics, biology, media, communications, marketing

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Compound of 媒 (bai — go-between, intermediary) and 体 (tai — body, substance). 媒 originally referred to a matchmaker or intermediary, extended to anything that serves as an intermediate channel.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal