midpoints

noun

plural of midpoint
1
as in middles
a middle point between extremes always choose a wine that is at the midpoint of the range of prices on the list

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2
as in centers
an area or point that is an equal distance from all points along an edge or outer surface that house is the precise midpoint of the school district

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Recent Examples of midpoints The rail mounts on the frame can be locked at several different heights, while the mat’s rail is fixed at the midpoints of its left and right edges. — PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
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  1. middles
  2. centers
  3. midsts
Noun
  • The Kritzers are both middles, but the Redhawks didn’t have a true right-side hitter going into the season.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Juxtapositions of seemingly unlike topics (plants and gender, feral dogs and nuclear weapons) give way to Venn diagrams, with Johnson dwelling in their overlapping middles.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of middles
Noun
  • The story centers on two ex-lovers who come back into each other’s lives after spending decades apart, only to find old feelings stirring with messy and mixed results.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • As of last year, the US had roughly 10 times more AI data centers than China, according to Stanford University research – and vastly more computing power, other estimates show.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of centers
Noun
  • Though that region was dubbed the whisky capital of the world in the Victorian Era – with more than 30 distilleries in its midsts – today Glen Scotia is one of just three that remain.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
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“Midpoints.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midpoints. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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