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MIDPOINT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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)
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