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• the point or position at an equal distance from the sides, edges, or ends of something.

• "she stood alone in the middle of the street"

• the form or voice of a verb expressing reflexive or reciprocal action.

• short for middle term.

• at an equal distance from the extremities of something; central.

• "the early and middle part of life"

Similar: central, mid, mean, medium, medial, median, midway, halfway, equidistant, mesial,

• denoting a voice of verbs in some languages, such as Greek, which expresses reciprocal or reflexive action.

• (in cricket, tennis, etc.) strike (the ball) with the middle of the bat, racket, or club.

• "every shot he took on, he middled"

Origin: Old English middel, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch middel and German Mittel, also to mid1.

• divided or dividing something equally into two parts.
"draw a line down the middle of a sheet of paper"

• in the process of doing (something).
"the company is in the middle of negotiations"

• a game in which two people attempt to throw a ball to each other without a third person in the middle catching it.

• adopt a policy that avoids extremes.