In such cases, money ceases to be the universal medium of exchange or standard of value.

Mesmer's original theory was of the existence of a universal medium or "fluid".

Film, however, was considered a universal medium, and most broadcasters had the facility to broadcast from it.

If that were to happen, it would no longer be a universal medium of sharing information.

Although that turned out to be manageable, each machine was different and not as universal a medium as the professors would have liked.

But Cyrus had concluded Darkness was a universal medium which couldn't be sensed.

The only universal medium in human life is words.

This quality of belonging is not easy to pin down in a photograph, a universal medium that readily crosses boundaries of place and time.

Books aren't the universal medium they used to be, but the industry still ought to be selling more books than we are today.

It also circumvented the problem of different countries' incompatible video standards, as film was a universal medium whereas videotape was not.