What's the difference between center and midpoint?

Center


Definition:

  • (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
  • (n.) The middle or central portion of anything.
  • (n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.
  • (n.) The earth.
  • (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.
  • (n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
  • (n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
  • (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Centre
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Centre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
  • (2) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (3) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
  • (4) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (5) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
  • (6) By using these methods, it was clearly indicated that these factors such as TDF of rectum, Z-coordinate of weighted geometric center (WGC-Z), the dose of whole pelvic irradiation, history of chemotherapy and Treponema pallidum hemoagglutination test (TPHA) were important for occurrence of rectal complication.
  • (7) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
  • (8) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
  • (9) T cells admixed in the germinal centers were overwhelmingly of the T-helper type.
  • (10) Changing conditions call for each Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) to develop a survival strategy based on its own standards and values.
  • (11) Of the 385 records reviewed for this study, the majority (87%) received their primary care at community health centers or the hospital's own outpatient clinics.
  • (12) Radiologic abnormalities included an unusual "moth-eaten" appearance of the markedly short long bones, bizzare ectopic ossification centers, and marked platyspondyly with unusual ossification centers.
  • (13) The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a temporal association between the introduction of a Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Center and changes in fetal mortality.
  • (14) The lack of TBM prior to germinal center development and their absence in aged mice are inconsistent with the concept that TBM are required for the induction of the germinal center reaction.
  • (15) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
  • (16) In contrast, Sca-2 did not appear to stain peripheral T lymphocytes, but recognized only a subset of B lymphocytes which could be localized by immunohistochemistry to germinal centers.
  • (17) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
  • (18) Patient care data for patients treated at the medical center are first recorded on paper charts and then coded and transferred to computer.
  • (19) Intrinsic bending of the 527-bp fragment (bend center approximately at bp 240) was represented as a composite of at least two components located near bp 170 and near bp 260.
  • (20) The shading of the optoelectronic system had a coefficient of variation (CV) of 1.42% for measurements in the center of the displayed area, but a CV of 3.55% for measurements over the whole monitor area.

Midpoint


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 2nd group of 10 subjects was studied around the midpoint of the luteal phase.
  • (2) The reversal potential of the PDS was considerably more negative when measured either before or after the midpoint of the extracellular discharge, suggesting the presence of an inhibitory synaptic component.
  • (3) The hybrids formed by the rapidly reacting fractions of both NRNA and mRNA melt over a narrow temperature range with a midpoint about 11 degrees C below that of native L cell DNA.
  • (4) For all sulfatase A enzymes tested, the midpoint of the pH transition for subunit association was pH 6.2, suggesting that the amino acid residues involved in the dimerization are similar.
  • (5) Increasing acidity favors M II, with the midpoint of the pH titration curve at pH 6.4.
  • (6) This section was characterized by its axial rotation, deviation of its midpoint from the spinal axis, and area symmetry about the midpoint.
  • (7) Clamping the ureter near the midpoint of the kidney caused a significant reduction in the number of filtering glomeruli per kidney, but due to compensatory hypertrophy the kidney weights of the groups did not differ significantly.
  • (8) The midpoint of the minfinity curve lay at -34 mV, and its slope at this point was 0-0139 mV-1.
  • (9) Although calculation of the observed heart rate as a percent of that expected at the midpoint and end of each quartile of exercise used fewer observations, it provided similar results.
  • (10) The chemical shift of both reagents on S-1 is sensitive to a structural transition in the region of SH1 which occurs upon increasing the temperature from 0 degrees C to 35 degrees C. The midpoint of the transition in both papain and chymotryptic S-1 is at approximately 11 degrees C at pH 7 (0.1 M CKl).
  • (11) The authors' previous study with an eye camera revealed that when asked to mark the centre of a line patients with left unilateral spatial neglect persist in fixating a point on its right part and place the subjective midpoint there without searching leftwards.
  • (12) The change in thermal elution midpoint, which indicates the stability of DNA duplexes, ranged from 0.1 to 14.5 C, with thermal stability closely following the reassociation data.
  • (13) The two types of procedure also yield different conclusions in scaling experiments designed to study the functional midpoint of two or more durations (temporal bisection procedures).
  • (14) The most abundant classes of late Ad2 mRNA observed by this technique hybridized, in order of R-loop frequency, with midpoints near posit1ons 0.57, 0.88, 0.77, and 0.40 to 0.50 of the DNA map.
  • (15) The redox midpoint potential of the iron-sulfur clusters and the magnetic spin interactions in mutated succinate dehydrogenases were indistinguishable from the those of the wild type.
  • (16) These findings suggest that the left hemisphere has the ability to estimate the midpoint of the line through the right visual field and that visuospatial disorder in the line bisection test is attributable to the pathological change in the right hemisphere.
  • (17) A two-stage reversible denaturation of the enzyme by guanidine HCl was observed with midpoints of 0.25 and 1.75 M, respectively.
  • (18) Heart rate at VT was compared with the approximate midpoint (77 percent) of recommended training intensity as estimated by the Karvonen equation, predicted maximal (220-age), and measured maximal HR formulas.
  • (19) In the presence of 1,1'-dimethylferrocene-3-(1-ethanol-2-amine) (14.8 microM), the results reveal a midpoint potential of -148 mV for methylamine dehydrogenase from bacterium W3A1.
  • (20) The doses that the cornea, lens, and retina would receive beneath the midpoint of the inferior hemisphere of the shield were measured using thermoluminescent and film dosimetry.