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Mass medium

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any means of public communication that reaches a large audience.

    "The Inquirer seems to be the morning paper that reaches the greatest number of the masses, but touches the classes hardly at all. The North American is second as a mass medium, perhaps, and Philadelphia authorities credit it with considerable circulation among women on account of its fashion news, furnished through the Wanamaker store."

  2. 2
    (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public wordnet

Etymology

From mass (“bulk”, noun) + medium (“agency of conveyance”, noun).

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