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mid-course
[f. mid a. + course.]
1. a. The middle of one's course. Now chiefly in phrase in mid-course.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 190 Hope stretcheth fayth to the vttermoste bonde, that it faint not in the midde course nor in the very beginning. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 204 Why in the East Darkness ere Dayes mid-course. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 93 Three of them, in mid-course, bore off a small ring..on the point of his lance. 1894H. D. Lloyd Wealth agst. Commw. 317 The gas-company suspended its operations in mid-course.
b. In contexts of interplanetary flights. Also attrib.
1959IRE Trans. Military Electronics III. 150/1 It will become apparent that no interplanetary mission even with the crudest requirements would have a reasonable probability of success unless some midcourse or terminal guidance is carried out. Ibid. 159/1 The midcourse corrections may also remove residual parallel components. 1964Times 1 Aug. 6 The small rocket engine which can manoeuvre the space craft slightly in mid-course. 1969Times 16 July 5/8 MCC, midcourse correction.
2. A middle course or mode of procedure.
In some recent Dicts. |