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midplace en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English mid-place, equivalent to mid- + place.

Meanings

1. the centre of a location or the midpoint between two locations
   • By placing the evacuated irradiation tubes so that the rolled up films are located near the source center line and symmetrically about its midplace reproducible dose rates with a variation of less than 1% over the films are easily attained […] 1959, William Walter Graessley, A Study of the Irradiation Method in the Measurement of Molecular Weight:
   • James Grotstein writes: In approaching a psychoanalytic conception of the borderline I should like to offer the following understanding: What seems to give the borderline personality (and borderline state) its uniqueness in differentiating itself from psychoses on one hand and neuroses on the other is not so much its midplace on the spectrum but is instead a qualitative difference. 1989, Andrew Samuels, Psychopathology:
   • That's where the king and queen, the court and ceremony would have been happening at mid-court, mid-place of the grandstand. 2016, Arthur I. Miltz, Art of Advocacy Series:
   • If all the senses are milieux, or midplaces where inside and outside meet and meld, then the skin is the global integral of these local area networks, the milieu of these milieux: […] 2009, Steven Connor, The Book of Skin:
   • A “midplace,” or general stage, is also mentioned, with a little oratory furnished with stools and cushions. 1906, Modern Language Notes - Volume 21:
   • By the third night, when Scott finally managed to locate him and send in retrieval forces, Jared's spirit had set to wandering the mid-places, that spiritual line between life and death; he was certain of it. 2013, Deidre Knight, Parallel Attraction:
   • Firms were searching for a midplace to park production. 2012, Amy K. Glasmeier, The High-Tech Potential:

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