Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mathematics The point of a line segment or curvilinear arc that divides it into two parts of the same length.
- noun A position midway between two extremes.
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- noun A
point equidistant between twoextremes . - noun mathematics A point which
divides aline segment into two lines of equallength .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
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Examples
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The midpoint is on the state SPCA property, so at 9, I dropped the truck and donned a nearly new EMS waist pack I found at the Salvation Army store.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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The midpoint is on the state SPCA property, so at 9, I dropped the truck and donned a nearly new EMS waist pack I found at the Salvation Army store.
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Using Mayer's methodology of proportional mixtures, for example, resulted in midpoint colors that were dirty-looking, not the clear greens and violets of the imagination.
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I use the word midpoint to emphasize that much work remains to be done to achieve acceptable margins and returns on our investment.
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At the midpoint, that is a small discount to a gold miner of similar size such as African Barrick Gold , which trades at 7.0 times, or Petropavlovsk, which trades at 6.7 times and which, like Polymetal, has most of its assets in Russia.
HEARD ON THE STREET: Polymetal's Offering Fails To Shine Andrew Peaple 2011
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Sigh, I have to say that starting out with a stunning premise and unraveling after the midpoint is the fate of nearly all survival-horror titles.
Critique: Haunting Ground Steve gaynor 2008
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Daily average temperature is defined as the midpoint of the high and low temperatures of the day.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Daily average temperature is defined as the midpoint of the high and low temperatures of the day.
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Mean is a more appropriate word when defined as the midpoint between extremes which is exactly what is being recorded.
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My point is that you don't call the midpoint of a process of creating something with a distant endpoint wrong simply because it hasn't reached its endpoint.
"This is extremely rare for a teacher to get this blatantly evangelical." Ann Althouse 2006
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