Explore Midpoints through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Midpoints meaning
plural of midpoint
Using Midpoints
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of midpoint
- In the example corpus, midpoints often appears in combinations such as: the midpoints, midpoints of, midpoints and.
Context around Midpoints
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Midpoints
- In this selection, "midpoints" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, concerning, edge, sides and actually stand out and add context to how "midpoints" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include around the midpoints of their and at the midpoints between these. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "midpoints" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with midpoints
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Thus : where x is the distance between the midpoints of the diagonals. (12 words)
At the midpoints between these four solar events, cross-quarter days are celebrated. (13 words)
The intervals above all have the same length on them, with the "midpoints" actually midway. (15 words)
The vertices of the octahedron lie at the midpoints of the edges of the tetrahedron, and in this sense it relates to the tetrahedron in the same way that the cuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron relate to the other Platonic solids. (39 words)
Three of them are the medians of the triangle (which connect the sides' midpoints with the opposite vertices), and these are concurrent at the triangle's centroid ; indeed, they are the only area bisectors that go through the centroid. (39 words)
A line segment joining a vertex of a tetrahedron with the centroid of the opposite face is called a median and a line segment joining the midpoints of two opposite edges is called a bimedian of the tetrahedron. (38 words)
Example sentences (11)
Corollary concerning midpoints and endpoints of chords A corollary of the above discussion is that if a parabola has several parallel chords, their midpoints all lie on a line which is parallel to the axis of symmetry.
A line segment joining a vertex of a tetrahedron with the centroid of the opposite face is called a median and a line segment joining the midpoints of two opposite edges is called a bimedian of the tetrahedron.
All non-self-crossing quadrilaterals tile the plane by repeated rotation around the midpoints of their edges.
At the midpoints between these four solar events, cross-quarter days are celebrated.
He secured the feathers at their midpoints with string and at their bases with wax, and gave the whole a gentle curvature like the wings of a bird.
The intervals above all have the same length on them, with the "midpoints" actually midway.
These are the distances from the center of the polyhedron to the vertices, edge midpoints, and face centers respectively.
The two bimedians in a quadrilateral and the line segment joining the midpoints of the diagonals in that quadrilateral are concurrent and are all bisected by their point of intersection.
The vertices of the octahedron lie at the midpoints of the edges of the tetrahedron, and in this sense it relates to the tetrahedron in the same way that the cuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron relate to the other Platonic solids.
Three of them are the medians of the triangle (which connect the sides' midpoints with the opposite vertices), and these are concurrent at the triangle's centroid ; indeed, they are the only area bisectors that go through the centroid.
Thus : where x is the distance between the midpoints of the diagonals.
Common combinations with midpoints
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the midpoints 7×
- midpoints of 5×
- midpoints and 2×
- their midpoints 2×
- midpoints with 2×