midline
midline Lexical Profile
midline Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A central line bisecting a two-dimensional figure, surface, or playing field into two symmetrical halves.
"The basketball player dribbled across the midline just before the shot clock expired."
The imaginary median plane through the longitudinal axis of the body or an organ, dividing it into right and left halves.
"Physical therapy exercises often focus on helping young children cross the midline of the body to improve bilateral coordination."
The line segment connecting the midpoints of two sides of a triangle or the nonparallel sides of a trapezoid.
"The length of a triangle's midline is always equal to half the length of the parallel third side."
• adjective
Situated in, along, or near the central vertical plane of the body or an organ.
"The surgeon made a precise midline incision in the patient's abdomen."