midcircle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The great circle that is equidistant from two poles.
noun
A reference generalised circle through which two given circles are inverses of each other.
noun
The circle (if one exists) that passes through the midpoint of each side of a given polygon, especially a triangle.
Example Sentences
- "The goalkeeper who is initially positioned midcircle defends the goal."
- "Play begins when the teacher bounces a basketball on the floor in the center of the midcircle."
- "As the picturing of reality by the arts and sciences progresses, the innermost circle approaches the midcircle. But the midcircle, regardless of the extent of its expansion, will never coincide with the outer circle."
- "The upstart had stopped in midcircle and suddenly lunged at the veteran, and as he closed in, the veteran could smell both liquor and fear on his breath, which came in short, desperate gasps."
- "But, though there is no perturbating motive force in the direction of the midcircle, there is nevertheleſs an accelerative one acting along it;[…]."
- "For any two circles (spheres) there always exists at least one midcircle (midsphere) which inverts the two given circles (spheres) into each other. in the older literature this is also known as the circle (sphere) of antisimilitude.[…]The center of a midcircle (midsphere) is the center of similitude of two given circles (spheres).[…]Clearly the midcircle (midsphere) of two equal circles (spheres) is the midline (midplane) between the two, which is partial justification for calling inversion in a circle or sphere reflection in a circle or sphere."