MIDPOINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does midpoint mean? 

• MIDPOINT (noun)
  The noun MIDPOINT has 1 sense:

1. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

  Familiarity information: MIDPOINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDPOINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

center; centre; midpoint

Hypernyms ("midpoint" is a kind of...):

point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "midpoint"):

bight (the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends))

center of curvature; centre of curvature (the center of the circle of curvature)

bowels (the center of the Earth)

bull; bull's eye (the center of a target)

center of gravity; centre of gravity (the point within something at which gravity can be considered to act; in uniform gravity it is equal to the center of mass)

center of mass; centre of mass (point representing the mean position of the matter in a body)

core (the center of an object)

navel; navel point (the center point or middle of something)

nombril (the center point on a shield)

core (the central part of the Earth)

nucleus (the positively charged dense center of an atom)

nucleus ((astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail)

 Context examples 

The midpoint of collection interval, which is associated with last measureable rate.

(Collection Interval Midpoint, NCI Thesaurus)

A color map composed of warm and cool colors, varying from blue at the weakest intensity to red at the strongest and with a neutral color at the midpoint.

(Hot-cold Color Map, NCI Thesaurus)

Mars will reach the midpoint of its current dust storm season on October 29th of this year.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)

At a midpoint, the force of the eclipses that already occurred and the ones that are still to come in a few months exert a powerful 90-degree force on that midpoint, which for all of us was October.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This year, October happened to be located at the midpoint between two eclipses, the ones we experienced on July 2 and July 16, and the ones that are coming December 25 and January 10. (Eclipses arrive every five-and-a-half months.) You don’t read a lot about midpoints because they are a mathematical term in astrology.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Astrologers call this concept a mid-point month, and midpoints receive enormous energy in a 90-degree angle from the past eclipses and the coming ones. (Astrologers view time differently than other people—we plot time, even time that has not yet occurred, on bell curves.) That’s a technical way of saying October exerted a lot of pressure on just about everyone.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I won’t torture you with this mathematical discussion, only that midpoints often bring enormous pressure to bear, especially if you had a sensitive planet in your natal chart, and by that, I mean a natal planet that was at a certain degree.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The first reason points to the fact that October was a sensitive midpoint because it fell at the point equidistant from the two past eclipses, July 2 and 16, and the upcoming ones due December 25 and January 10.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)