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单词 midpoint
释义
midpointmid‧point /ˈmɪdpɔɪnt/ noun [countable usually singular] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • By the midpoint of the twentieth century, the economy had begun to improve.
  • The beach is about a mile long; at its midpoint are a snack bar and restrooms.
  • The Redskins and the Giants were the leaders as the midpoint in the season drew near.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A straight, uniform and finite line has symmetry about its midpoint.
  • At the midpoint of the session, the activity changes.
  • At the midpoint of the study all interviewers were seen in small groups for a psychological debriefing.
  • The first started deep in South Los Angeles and caught me at midpoint.
  • These numbers are surprisingly low, no junction had a mean accident or risk rating above the midpoint of the scale.
  • They wanted to ponder a season that has only reached its midpoint.
  • This is the exact midpoint of the performance, the moment of moments.
  • We will see how the mummies occupied the midpoint of the most important overland trade route in Eurasian history.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorin the middle
· At the back there was a small garden with a fishpond in the middle.· I was never at the top of my class. I was somewhere in the middle, I suppose.in the middle of · Lizzie woke up in the middle of the night with a toothache.· At the time, the country was in the middle of an economic recession.
: the middle drawer/shelf/finger etc the one in the middle: · You'll find the scissors in the middle drawer of my desk.· Jane was wearing a gold ring on her middle finger.· There were three children in my family, and I was the middle one.
in the middle of an area, country, or town: · The houses face onto a central courtyard.· the tropical rainforest in central Africa· central London
British /center American: centre door/panel/page etc the door etc that is in the middle with others on either side: · On the center panel of the screen there is a painting of a Greek goddess.· There's usually a picture of some glamorous girl on the centre page.
British /at/in the center American exactly in the middle of something: · It was a huge room with a high ceiling and an oak table in the centre.at/in the centre of: · At the center of the atom is the nucleus.· The city of Turin stands at the centre of the Piedmontese plain.
at the middle point between two places or of a period of time or event: halfway across/between/down/up etc: · Our car broke down halfway across the bridge.· We were halfway down the mountain when it started snowing.· Joe was pretty unhappy and left the college halfway through the year.the halfway mark (=the middle point of something): · The Scots opened up a 29-17 lead, and at the halfway mark they were still in front.
in or near the middle of a period of time: · The house was built in the mid-18th century.· As the value of the US dollar fell in the mid-1980s, so did the value of UK reserves.· Let's meet again mid-week.
at the middle point of a distance, a period of time, or a set of numbers: midway between/through: · The islands lie in the Indian Ocean midway between Madagascar and Tanzania.· United took the lead midway through the first half.· At a guess, I'd say he was midway between 50 and 60.
the point that is an equal distance from either end of a process or scale: · The Redskins and the Giants were the leaders as the midpoint in the season drew near.midpoint of: · By the midpoint of the twentieth century, the economy had begun to improve.
a point that is half of the way through or along somethingmidpoint of At the midpoint of the study, all those taking part were interviewed again.
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