MID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mid mean? 

• MID (adjective)
  The adjective MID has 1 sense:

1. used in combination to denote the middle

  Familiarity information: MID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in combination to denote the middle

Context example:

a mid-June wedding

Similar:

middle (between an earlier and a later period of time)

 Context examples 

The glaciers' acceleration lasted from mid-2008 to 2012.

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

Once Buck went over, and the whole circle of sixty dogs started up; but he recovered himself, almost in mid air, and the circle sank down again and waited.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It typically occurs between a person’s 30s to mid-60s.

(Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s treatment, National Institutes of Health)

This rebound swamped the acceleration caused by the warming climate and made the rate of sea level rise higher in the mid- and late 1990s than it otherwise would have been.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

Hot Jupiters, cousins to ultrahot Jupiters with dayside temperatures below 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 Celsius), were the first widely discovered type of exoplanet, starting back in the mid-1990s.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

Large fault scarps on Mercury were first discovered in the flybys of Mariner 10 in the mid-1970s and confirmed by MESSENGER, which found the planet closest to the sun was shrinking.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)

In the BAS study, scientists obtained seabed sediment cores from beneath the floating part of Pine Island Glacier, which revealed a cavity had formed beneath the shelf prior to the mid-1940s.

(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)

When exposed to a strong external magnetic field, ferumoxides exhibits enhanced T2 relaxation, resulting in signal loss in normal tissues (image darkening) on mid T1/T2 or strongly T2-weighted images.

(Ferumoxides Injectable Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

Increasing girth of the mid section of an individual.

(Enlarging Abdomen, NCI Thesaurus)

Located in the Peruvian Andes, Ubinas has shown signs of an impending eruption since the mid-2013, highlighted by the appearance of a fresh lava dome in March 2014.

(Fresh lava arrives at Ubinas volcano, NASA)