midplace

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noun

the centre of a location or the midpoint between two locations

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounmidplace (plural midplaces)

plural midplaces · alternative mid-place

  1. the centre of a location or the midpoint between two locations

    Firms were searching for a midplace to park production.

    2012, Amy K. Glasmeier, The High-Tech Potential
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    A “midplace,” or general stage, is also mentioned, with a little oratory furnished with stools and cushions.

    1906, Modern Language Notes - Volume 21

    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

    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

    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

Origin

  1. Middle Englishmid-place
  2. Englishmidplace

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

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APA

midplace. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midplace

MLA

“midplace.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midplace. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “midplace,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midplace.

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