midplace

English

Alternative forms

• mid-place

Etymology

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

Noun

midplace (plural midplaces)

1. the centre of a location or the midpoint between two locations
   • 1906, Modern Language Notes - Volume 21:

     A “midplace,” or general stage, is also mentioned, with a little oratory furnished with stools and cushions.

   • 1959, William Walter Graessley, A Study of the Irradiation Method in the Measurement of Molecular Weight:

     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 […]

   • 1989, Andrew Samuels, Psychopathology:

     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.

   • 2009, Steven Connor, The Book of Skin:

     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: […]

   • 2012, Amy K. Glasmeier, The High-Tech Potential:

     Firms were searching for a midplace to park production.

   • 2013, Deidre Knight, Parallel Attraction:

     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.

   • 2016, Arthur I. Miltz, Art of Advocacy Series:

     That's where the king and queen, the court and ceremony would have been happening at mid-court, mid-place of the grandstand.