Thesaurus: middle

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1. a. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
2. a. Intermediate; intervening.
3. a. The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion
4. a. the waist.
5. adj. being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
6. adj. equally distant from the extremes
7. adj. of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
8. adj. between an earlier and a later period of time
9. n. an area that is approximately central within some larger region
10. n. an intermediate part or section
11. n. the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
12. n. the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process