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A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
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midpoint
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Word definitions for midpoint in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ By the midpoint of the twentieth century, the economy had begun to improve. ▪ The beach is about a mile long; at its midpoint are a snack bar and restrooms. ▪ The Redskins and the Giants were the leaders as the midpoint ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A point equidistant between two extremes. 2 (context mathematics English) A point which divides a line segment into two lines of equal length.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A midpoint is the middle point of a line segment in geometry. Midpoint may also refer to: Midpoint (astrology) Midpoint (company) Midpoint (screenwriting) Midpoint Café , a restaurant, souvenir and antique shop on US Route 66 in Adrian, Texas Midpoint Memorial ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from mid + point (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure [syn: center , centre ]
Usage examples of midpoint.
Inevitably, as a stream flows around a rock, the main thrusts of the Allies had bypassed the hilly, forested Ardennes region, located at roughly the midpoint on the Western Front.
After the midpoint is reached, the surface outline of the rock shrinks as more of it disappears, until the paint closes over the last of it and the rock has gone.
The transformations defining the symmetry of a square are: all rotations that are multiples of 90 degrees, and all reflections about diagonals and about lines that join the midpoints of opposite sides.
Decks just above and below the atrium, which functioned as the midpoint in Cirrus, held the pricier, more respectable restaurants and stores.
Decks just above and below main atrium, midpoint in Cirrus, held the pricier, more respectable restaurants and stores.
Stephen said smiling, swaying his ashplant in slow swingswong from its midpoint, lightly.
These locales might become trouble spots when the Foundation’s expansion approached the galactic midpoint.
Both were dressed in shorts, bobby sox, and, temptingly, muscle shirts whose hems hung no lower than the midpoint twixt their boobies and navels.
The pillar was brightly painted red to the midpoint and green to the top, and it rose from a huge altar stone quite appropriately heavily stained.
It's not in geosynchronous orbit anymore, it's higher than that, but we can still reach the midpoint.
Still, Second Company rides another three kays before Lorn sees the line of darkness crossing the ward-wall ahead-and behind it, the white granite of the midpoint chaos-tower building rising above the ground mist, less than half a kay behind the fallen tree.
I found it difficult to believe that, with so many routes to follow, the runoff from even a hundred-year storm would rise as far as the midpoint of one of the larger arteries.
Dusty grabbed the stock at midpoint, the revolving nut of the lock plate digging into the palm of his hand.
Midway along the front wall stood an archway, and archways yawned at the midpoints of the side walls as well.
The 'sightings' took place only near the midpoints of the trips, and only when the ships were far from all material bodies and signal sources.