"differential medium" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "differential + medium",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "differential media",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "differential medium (plural differential media)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "growth medium that allows two or more organisms to be distinguished from one another by some parameter, such as growth vs. no-growth, distinguishing colors, distinguishing morphologies, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-differential_medium-en-noun-ixTS78Lc",
      "links": [
        [
          "growth",
          "growth"
        ],
        [
          "organism",
          "organism"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "selektiivinen kasvatusalusta"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "differential medium"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "differential + medium",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "differential media",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "differential media"
      },
      "expansion": "differential medium (plural differential media)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "growth medium that allows two or more organisms to be distinguished from one another by some parameter, such as growth vs. no-growth, distinguishing colors, distinguishing morphologies, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "growth",
          "growth"
        ],
        [
          "organism",
          "organism"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "selektiivinen kasvatusalusta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "differential medium"
}