midcap

“You could’ve gone down to midcap stocks,” said Bruce T. Herring, group chief investment officer overseeing Fidelity Blue Chip Growth, the largest fund on the list.

2007 April 8, Tim Gray, “Yes, It’s a 7-Year Streak, but No, They’re Not Bragging”, in New York Times:

market capitalization
market capitalization

(finance) Having medium market capitalization, often defined as between 2 and 10 billion US dollars


midcap

(finance) A stock with medium market capitalization.


midroll

(photography, film) In the middle of a roll of film.


midroll

midrolls (plural)
mid-roll (alternative)

He says he has never used an edited thumbnail, inserted a midroll ad or tried to chase any kind of YouTube trend.

2024 May 23, Chris Almeida, “They’re Ignoring MrBeast’s Rules of YouTube, and Thriving”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet, advertising) An advertisement that interrupts an online video, playing before the video resumes.


midtour

Occurring or existing in the middle of a tour


midtour

But for these soldiers, it is all the more so because of the length of their deployment, which was extended midtour from one year to 15 months.

2007 November 3, Lisa W. Foderaro, “For Soldiers Families, Battles Are Not Far Off”, in New York Times:


downcore

en-adj

downcore (comparative more downcore, superlative most downcore)

more downcore (comparative)
most downcore (superlative)
down-core (alternative)

Describing a sample taken from further down a core


midcontinent

Union trainmen stopped traffic on six midcontinent railroads with an unheralded strike yesterday, but some railroads said they expected to resume service by early today.

1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:


upsection

en-adv

upsection (comparative more upsection, superlative most upsection)

more upsection (comparative)
most upsection (superlative)

(geology) Towards the higher part of a section.


bihemisphered

(At one point, she describes her extended family as “a bicameral group to match the bihemisphered world we traveled after the split.”)

2009 March 29, Francine Du Plessix Gray, “My Father, Your Father”, in New York Times:

Divided into two sections or hemispheres.


downturned

en-adj

downturned (comparative more downturned, superlative most downturned)

more downturned (comparative)
most downturned (superlative)


underactive

underactive (comparative more underactive, superlative most underactive)

more underactive (comparative)
most underactive (superlative)

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Thus a person with an underactive thyroid can gain weight even on a low-calorie diet.

1989 Apr, John A. McDougall, “Healthy by Choice”, in Vegetarian Times:


mid-mashie

(golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club, the equivalent of a 3-iron in a modern set of clubs.


Romanicist

A person who studies or teaches Romance languages and/or literature.


midchest

Today, Mrs. Khan shares a room in a dreary nursing home on the fringes of Houston, paralyzed from midchest down and tormented by a fateful choice to try to remake her life.

2007 July 17, John M. Broder, “Filling Gaps in Iraq, Then Finding a Void at Home”, in New York Times:


midsession

There was a midsession break for lunch.


midsession

The court was interrupted midsession.


midmovie

Its midmovie placement is highly inappropriate thematically...

2008, Keith Gilyard, Composition and Cornel West:


bigon

(rare) A polygon having two edges and two vertices.


midaltitude

The beetle’s usual targets were once midaltitude lodgepole and ponderosa pines.

2007 January 30, Charles Petit, “In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It”, in New York Times:


midverse

This is the project led by Brendan Fowler, who talks and yelps and mumbles and doesn’t quite rap his songs in real time, reserving the right to change his mind midverse, or to fixate on a phrase and repeat it.

2007 February 4, Kelefa Sanneh, “Friends, Feuds, Yelps, Sobs and a Swedish Nightingale”, in New York Times:


biraphid

(microscopy) Having a raphe at each of both valves; notably said of diatoms.


downtempo

(music) A genre of house music and ambient music with an ethereal sound and a driving beat.


midsyllable

midsyllable (comparative more midsyllable, superlative most midsyllable)

more midsyllable (comparative)
most midsyllable (superlative)


fromology

From fromage (French term for cheese) + -ology.
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downvote

en-verb

downvote (third-person singular simple present downvotes, present participle downvoting, simple past and past participle downvoted)

downvotes (present singular third-person)
downvoting (participle present)
downvoted (participle past)
downvoted (past)

(transitive, Internet, Reddit) To vote against, reducing a cumulative tally of popularity.


upvote

(Internet, Reddit) A vote for something that increases a cumulative tally of popularity.


upvote

upvote (third-person singular simple present upvotes, present participle upvoting, simple past and past participle upvoted)

upvotes (present singular third-person)
upvoting (participle present)
upvoted (participle past)
upvoted (past)

(transitive, Internet, Reddit) To vote for, increasing a cumulative tally of popularity.


bithorax

bithorax complex
bithorax complex#English

(genetics) Only used in bithorax complex


bipyridyl

(organic chemistry) Any of six isomeric aromatic compounds consisting of two pyridine groups joined directly together in a manner analogous to biphenyl


bicone

(geometry) The three-dimensional shape swept by revolving an isosceles triangle around its edge of unequal length, or by joining two identical right circular cones, base to base.


bianisotropic

en-adj

bianisotropic (comparative more bianisotropic, superlative most bianisotropic)

more bianisotropic (comparative)
most bianisotropic (superlative)

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting bianisotropy


bianisotropy

(physics) An inhomogenous, asymmetric form of anisotropy.


panlingual

On the other hand, however, Linguas scholarly audience could have responded to this ostentatious parade of panlingual' skill as a confirmation of their own erudition.

1998, Jonathan Gil Harris, Foreign bodies and the body politic, page 112:

[…] it is not interlingual translation that betrays the stutterer; it is, rather, panlingual stuttering.

We spoke in a private panlingual gibberish. We were not German or European or English or Canadian; we were flesh detached from time and place.

2007, Stephen Henigan, A Grave in the Air, page 32:

Involving or encompassing all languages.


mosquitocide

en-noun

mosquitocide (countable and uncountable, plural mosquitocides)

mosquitocides (plural)
mosquiticide (alternative)

Six types of sprayers were tried. […] Mixed catches of mosquitoes were used, the majority being Armigeres obturans, a hardy culecine^([sic]) mosquito. Measured quantities of mosquitocide of known potency were blown off from the various sprayers and the room kept closed for half an hour.

1939, Report of the Haffkine Institute, Bombay: Haffkine Institute, pages 54–55:

In order to reduce the mosquito population in the summer of 1949, a portion of this area which showed infestation with larvae was sprayed by airplane within the last 30 days. If further tests show the necessity for more extensive air spraying with mosquitocide, additional treatment will be applied.

1949 June 13, Reports of Proceedings of the City Council of Boston […], Boston, Mass.: Printing Department, published 1950, page 187, column 2:

The broad field of action of aqueous suspensions is indicated by the fact that 12,500 of the liters of mosquitocide with DDT as a base used in Venezuela in 1951 to spray 500,000 houses in the malarial area, 84% were in aqueous suspensions and only 16% in solutions and emulsions.

1952, Documents: CIH/O-CIH/62, 3 July-4 Oct. 1952:

The following are some examples of the benefits obtained from mangroves. They are a source of wood products – timber, poles and posts, firewood, charcoal; non-wood products such as fodder, honey, wax, tannin, dye and materials for thatching; traditional tea prepared from mangrove leaves serve^([sic]) as a cholesterol feed for prawn, as potential sources of mosquitocide and as a source of anti-viral drug formulation.

2004, National Workshop on Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Management of Mangrove Forests in India: 18th-22nd February, 2004, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Karnataka: Institute of Wood Science and Technology, →ISBN, page 168, column 1:


mosquitocidal

en-adj

mosquitocidal (comparative more mosquitocidal, superlative most mosquitocidal)

more mosquitocidal (comparative)
most mosquitocidal (superlative)

Acting as a mosquitocide; fatal to mosquitos.


mega-annum

en-noun

mega-annum (plural mega-annums or mega-anna)

mega-annums (plural)
mega-anna (plural)
megannum (alternative)
megaannum (alternative)
mega annum (alternative)
Mega annum (alternative)
Ma (alternative abbreviation)

/ˌmɛɡəˈænəm/

Synonym of megayear: a period of 1 million years.


hypercorrectness

The state or condition of being hypercorrect.


teleguide

en-verb

teleguide (third-person singular simple present teleguides, present participle teleguiding, simple past and past participle teleguided)

teleguides (present singular third-person)
teleguiding (participle present)
teleguided (participle past)
teleguided (past)

a teleguided missile


biholomorphic

(mathematics) Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting biholomorphism


biholomorphism

(mathematics) A bijective holomorphism whose inverse is also holomorphic


midrapidity

en-noun

midrapidity (countable and uncountable, plural midrapidities)

midrapidities (plural)
mid-rapidity (alternative)

(physics) The rapidity of a particle close to the axis of a beam of particles.


bialgebra

(mathematics) A particular form of vector space that is a compatible form of two algebras.


underabundance

underabundance (countable and uncountable, plural underabundances)

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A less than normal, or insufficient, abundance.


underabundant

en-adj

underabundant (comparative more underabundant, superlative most underabundant)

more underabundant (comparative)
most underabundant (superlative)

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bicrystal

A semiconductor (or similar device) incorporating a junction of two crystals


bimetric

(mathematics, physics) Describing any system that may be described using two metrics.


binaphthyl

(organic chemistry) Any of several isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, analogous to biphenyl, formed from two naphthalene residues linked by a single bond


biphenanthryl

(organic chemistry) Any of several isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, analogous to biphenyl, composed of two linked phenanthrene residues.


midblastula

(biology) A stage, in the development of an embryo, at which zygotic gene transcription is activated


biparavector

(mathematics) A particular function of two paravectors.


paravector

(mathematics) A sum (in some algebras) of a scalar and a vector.


midchapter

a midchapter review

In the middle of a chapter (of a book etc.).


midgesture

The gym instructor stopped in midgesture and turned to greet the newcomer.


codicological

From French codicologie + -ical. Attested slightly earlier than codicology; compare French codicologique. By surface analysis, codicology + -ical.


biphyletic

(systematics) descended or evolved from a common ancestor in two separate branches


bitheism

A form of dualism that recognizes two deities which are not in conflict or opposition (as good vs evil) but rather are in two exclusive forms or states (like male and female).


bizygomatic

Of, pertaining to, or joining the two zygomatic arches


downrate

en-verb

downrate (third-person singular simple present downrates, present participle downrating, simple past and past participle downrated)

downrates (present singular third-person)
downrating (participle present)
downrated (participle past)
downrated (past)

(transitive) To give something a lower rating.


midmountain

Amid mountains; in a mountainous region.


biclustering

(mathematics, computing) The simultaneous clustering of the rows and columns of a matrix


midface

(anatomy) The middle portion of the face.


bichromatic

Its title is "Musik mit Vierteltönen," and it contains the sum of the author's experiences with the "bichromatic harmonium" of his own construction.

1922, Oscar George Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, volume 8, page 620:

Bichromatic music on the electronic orchestra is the next step in the musical art of the 20th century.

1969, The Journal for the Study of Consciousness, page 83:

In 1926 Straube built a Bichromatic Quartertone Harmonium for Mordecai Sandberg with white keys for the whole tones, black keys for the half tones and brown keys for the quarter tones.

1998, Robert F. Gellerman, Gellerman's International Reed Organ Atlas (page 233)

(music) Employing or relating to a quarter tone scale.


underactuated

en-adj

underactuated (comparative more underactuated, superlative most underactuated)

more underactuated (comparative)
most underactuated (superlative)

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bichromophoric

Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
This is illustrated using the methoxynaphthalenefunctionalized epoxycyclobutane 160, which is reacted with functionalized norbornenes 93,56, and 148 to produce polyalicyclic structures 161-163, respectively, as examples of space-separated bichromophoric systems.

(organic chemistry) Having two chromophores


biphoton

(quantum mechanics) A quantum-entangled state comprising two photons.


biprism

(mathematics) A fusion of two triangular prisms.


Antiochian

Antiochian (comparative more Antiochian, superlative most Antiochian)

more Antiochian (comparative)
most Antiochian (superlative)
Antiochan (alternative)

Pertaining to Antiochus of Ascalon, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.


bigram

bigram model

Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.

2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 2:

(linguistics, often attributive) An n-gram consisting of two items from a sequence.


liposculpture

A form of liposuction that uses ultrasound to first break up the fat


bidiagonal

(mathematics) Describing a matrix that has non-zero entries along the main diagonal and either the diagonal above or the diagonal below.


upfault

(geology) A horst (area raised relative to surrounding land).


upzone

en-verb

upzone (third-person singular simple present upzones, present participle upzoning, simple past and past participle upzoned)

upzones (present singular third-person)
upzoning (participle present)
upzoned (participle past)
upzoned (past)

For example, a neighborhood of single-family homes may be upzoned to multifamily residential or a mixed-use (commercial plus residential) zone.

2001, Randal O'Toole, The vanishing automobile and other urban myths:

(US, transitive) To rezone for more intensive use.


midstance

A camera installed at foot level captured my gait, frame by frame, as I jogged, so the staff could gauge my midstance — when all the weight is on one foot — and determine how much support I needed. Mr. Bergland suggested the Saucony Omni shoe ($100), which is designed for V-shaped feet.

2007 April 12, Mike Albo, “Because a Logo Is Not Enough”, in New York Times:

The point in walking at which the raised leg passes the grounded leg that is supporting the body's weight.


midibus

A single-decker bus, generally smaller than a traditional bus but larger than a minibus.


bisymmetric

(mathematics, of a square matrix) Symmetric about both of its main diagonals.


bisymmetry

en-noun

bisymmetry (usually uncountable, plural bisymmetries)

(mathematics) The property of being bisymmetric.


downmodulate

en-verb

downmodulate (third-person singular simple present downmodulates, present participle downmodulating, simple past and past participle downmodulated)

downmodulates (present singular third-person)
downmodulating (participle present)
downmodulated (participle past)
downmodulated (past)

(transitive) To modulate to a lower level.


midpiece

midpieces (plural)
mid-piece (alternative)

The part of a spermatozoon between the head and the tail; it consists of mitochondria, centrioles, and an axoneme.


biorthogonal

(mathematics) Describing a pair of topological vector spaces that are in duality with a pair of indexed subsets in a specific manner


downcurved

en-adj

downcurved (comparative more downcurved, superlative most downcurved)

more downcurved (comparative)
most downcurved (superlative)


bialgebraic

(mathematics) Of or pertaining to bialgebra.


bilipid

en-noun

bilipid (countable and uncountable, plural bilipids)

Used attributively to describe a lipid bilayer


mid-adolescent

en-adj

mid-adolescent (comparative more mid-adolescent, superlative most mid-adolescent)

more mid-adolescent (comparative)
most mid-adolescent (superlative)

The Phi store on Greene Street is a vast cool, dark space of dizzying height, an effect accentuated by smooth free-standing obsidian walls and willowy black Corinthian pillars that seem to be in a midadolescent growth spurt.

2007 August 9, Cintra Wilson, “A (Very Poised) Dance on the Table”, in New York Times:

being in or pertaining to the middle of the adolescence


bipack

(cinematography) The process of loading two reels of film into a camera, so that they both pass through the camera gate together, formerly used for visual effects and as a subtractive colour process.


upvalue

(computing, programming) A free variable that has been bound (closed over) with a closure.


downcycle

en-verb

downcycle (third-person singular simple present downcycles, present participle downcycling, simple past and past participle downcycled)

downcycles (present singular third-person)
downcycling (participle present)
downcycled (participle past)
downcycled (past)

Nike set up a "Reuse-a-Shoe" program to "downcycle" old sneakers. The outsole rubber and midsole foam from used shoes are converted into surface material for running tracks and other athletic facilities and playgrounds. The fabric from the shoe uppers becomes padding under carpets.

2004, Michael Renner, “Moving toward a Less Consumptive Economy”, in Linda Starke, editor, State of the World 2004: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 108:

(transitive) To convert (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of lower quality and reduced functionality.


upcycle

upcycle (third-person singular simple present upcycles, present participle upcycling, simple past and past participle upcycled)

upcycles (present singular third-person)
upcycling (participle present)
upcycled (participle past)
upcycled (past)

Blend of up- + recycle or possibly upgrade + recycle.

Recycling in many cases means "downcycling" – in particular cases, however, it can also mean "upcycling".

1994, Jim Mason, editor, Design for Manufacturability, 1994: An Environment for Improving Design and Designing to Improve Our Environment: Presented at the 1994 Design for Manufacturability Conference at the National Design Engineering Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 14–17, 1994 (DE (Series) (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Design Engineering Division); 67), New York, N.Y.: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, →ISBN, page 75:

As I child I made thins from "nothing." If I didn't have any store-bought materials, I would go to my closet and cut up my least favorite article of clothing and make something new with it. It just made sense to use, reuse, upcycle and make things from scratch.

2009, Jacqueline Myers-Cho, “Use, Reuse, Recycle”, in Strands: Creating Unexpected Fabrics and Fashionable Projects, Cincinnati, Oh.: North Light Books, F+W Media, →ISBN, page 7:

For Tom Szaky, founder and chief executive of TerraCycle, which collects used plastic bags, juice pouches, cookie wrappers and other items that cannot be recycled and ‘upcycles’ or morphs them into items such as messenger bags, tote bags, and pencil cases, trash is a raw material and the key to a multimillion-dollar, ecocapitalist (ad)venture[…].

2010, Avi Brisman, “The Indiscriminate Criminalisation of Environmentally Beneficial Activities”, in Rob White, editor, Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives, Cullompton, Devon, Portland, Or.: Willan Publishing, →ISBN; republished Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2011, →ISBN, page 166:

[…] PFNC takes empty shipping containers that are too expensive to recycle or ship back empty to China and converts them into affordable, stackable homes for Mexican workers. […] PFNC makes enough money to continue upcycling shipping containers costs and to invest for future growth.

2010, Tyler McNally, Ronald S. Jonash, Hitendra Patel, “Introduction”, in Greenovate!: Companies Innovating to Create a More Sustainable World, [Boston], Mass.: Hult International Business School Pub., →ISBN, page xxiv:

Electronic waste—or ewaste—has provided a business opportunity for certain companies, which disassemble old computers, monitors, fax machines, printers, and other electronic equipment that they obtain from businesses and individuals[…]. These ecycling businesses reclaim the glass from monitors, plastics from casings, and metal from wires and circuit boards and ship the components to manufacturers that upcycle the materials. (Upcycling is a type of recycling that takes discarded materials and makes a new product with a value higher than that of the original materials.)

2012, Peter H[amilton] Raven, David M. Hassenzahl, Linda R. Berg, “Solid and Hazardous Wastes”, in Environment, 8th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 481, columns 1–2:

Upcycling requires that innovation be integrated with sustainable product development. Several innovative products can be manufactured by upcycling the unrecyclable wastes, such as plastic rejects from municipal solid waste. Such products include bricks, interlocks, manhole covers, table toppings, and road ramps[…].

2015, Hussein ElKersh, Salah M. El-Haggar, “Cradle-to-Cradle and Innovation”, in Salah M. El-Haggar, Sustainability and Innovation: The Next Global Industrial Revolution, Cairo, New York, N.Y.: American University in Cairo Press, →ISBN, page 54:

(transitive) To convert (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.

kitar tinggi

to convert into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality


bidaily

… the European Dermatology Forum consensus group has recently published guidelines favoring the use of topical calcineurin inhibitors as a first-line option for face and neck on a bidaily [twice-daily] basis …

2016 June 10, Khaled Ezzedine, Nanette Silverberg, “A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitiligo in Children”, in Pediatrics, volume 138, number 1, →DOI, page e20154126:


midengined

“Our model was the styling cues that midengined cars have.

2007 July 15, Phil Patton, “Once Frumpy, Green Cars Start Showing Some Flash”, in New York Times:

Having the engine between the rear and front axles (in a motor vehicle).


midconversation

Moody, often blurred and set in rooms cast with bohemian clutter, these images capture tenants in their downbeat moments, mouths half-open, eyes half-closed, midstep or midconversation.

2007 July 22, Caroline H. Dworin, “Love Letters to a Dowager of a Muse”, in New York Times:

The middle of (or any time during) a conversation.


midinterview

Westhoff was in midinterview when receiver Laveranues Coles ran up behind him and wrapped Westhoff in a big bear hug.

2007 August 17, Karen Crouse, “A Jets Coach Who Is Able to Bend but Not Break”, in New York Times:


midmarriage

There is a noticeable shift in emphasis this season, a darkening of mood away from the premarital frolics of blind dates, Manolo Blahniks and Central Perk hookups to closely watched midmarriage malaise.

2007 August 19, Alessandra Stanley, “Say, Darling, Is It Frigid in Here?”, in New York Times:


midbudget

At a moment when the term independent film is taken to refer either to midbudget studio projects anchored by Oscar-soliciting performances or to the aimless navel-gazing of under-stimulated hipsters (Speak up!

2007 September 14, A. O. Scott, “The Rough Poetry of Real Independence”, in New York Times:


uproll

uproll (third-person singular simple present uprolls, present participle uprolling, simple past and past participle uprolled)

uprolls (present singular third-person)
uprolling (participle present)
uprolled (participle past)
uprolled (past)

From up- + roll. Compare Dutch oprollen (“to roll up”), German aufrollen (“to roll up”).


midtrial

Mr. DeVecchio and his lawyers said they were not worried that Justice Reichbach would be unfair; ultimately, the judge did not have to give a verdict because of the midtrial revelations that brought the case to an end.

2007 November 3, Jim Dwyer, “A Prosecution Goes Bad, and a Judge Lets Loose”, in New York Times:


midargument

She accuses him of having a thing for white girls, which really sets him off — and Tomine takes voyeuristic delight in capturing every gruesome facial expression of a couple in midargument.

2007 November 11, Jim Windolf, “Asian Confusion”, in New York Times:


midtrip

She feels reassured that not only is her $2,000 airfare completely refundable should she cancel before she leaves, but that the policy also pays for her to return home unexpectedly midtrip "if one of my teachers gets sick and I have to fly back and keep things from falling apart."

2007 November 15, Lisa Belkin, “Hello, Vacation: It's the Boss”, in New York Times:


midspeech

He halted in midspeech as he noticed a curious figure hurrying towards us.

A point in time during a speech, or while one is speaking.


underanesthetized

en-adj

underanesthetized (comparative more underanesthetized, superlative most underanesthetized)

more underanesthetized (comparative)
most underanesthetized (superlative)

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Called anesthesia awareness, it occurs when patients wake up during surgery because they are underanesthetized.

2007 December 11, Melissa Lafsky, “Onscreen Villain Makes Doctors Wince”, in New York Times:


midpalate

In winetasting, the period between the initial taste and swallowing.


midcampaign

The midcampaign staff review underscores the difficulties Mr. McCain is having in trying to build his Republican presidential campaign around his crusades for tighter ethics rules and pledges to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

2008 May 17, David D. Kirkpatrick, “In Effort to Avoid Conflicts, McCain Issues New Rules for Staff”, in New York Times:


uplevel

(marketing) Having greater capabilities or a higher version number.


downlevel

The downlevel Gillette Good News subbrand works in part because the rest of the razor line is positioned (and thus elevated) by the Gillette Sensor.

2012, David A. Aaker, Building Strong Brands:

(marketing) Having lesser capabilities or a lower version number.


downsection

en-adv

downsection (comparative more downsection, superlative most downsection)

more downsection (comparative)
most downsection (superlative)

(geology) Towards the lower part of a section.


upconverted

en-adj

upconverted (comparative more upconverted, superlative most upconverted)

more upconverted (comparative)
most upconverted (superlative)


midtirade

Reverend Baldwin broke off in midtirade, clearly annoyed to have his moment in the spotlight cut short. He recovered quickly, though, and moved to turn the situation to his advantage.


midcharge

“Haa mmm,” Mr. Serundori says, emitting a special gruntlike gorilla greeting that miraculously stops Kabirizi in midcharge.

2009 March 4, Jeffrey Gettleman, “In Congo, With Rebels Now at Bay, Calm Erupts”, in New York Times:


midbass

Vizio’s compact speaker combo features four three-inch high-efficiency midbass drivers and two three-quarter-inch high-performance tweeters.

2009 March 12, Azadeh Ensha, “A Diminutive Sound System Provides Big Sound in Small Spaces”, in New York Times:


midflame

Wind was measured at midflame height where values might be expected to be somewhat lower than standard 20-foot, open anemometer heights.

1968, U.S.D.A. Forest Service research note PNW:


upmodulate

en-verb

upmodulate (third-person singular simple present upmodulates, present participle upmodulating, simple past and past participle upmodulated)

upmodulates (present singular third-person)
upmodulating (participle present)
upmodulated (participle past)
upmodulated (past)

(transitive) To modulate to a higher level.


midquestion

“Is that it?” he says in midquestion.

2009 July 3, Harvey Araton, “Gazing Into the Mirror, Roddick Is Liking What He Sees”, in New York Times:

A point in time during which a question is being asked.


midsemester

“This is like a midsemester report card,” said Sarah E. Mendelson, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who is organizing a conference on civil society here that Mr. Obama and perhaps Mr. Medvedev will attend.

2009 July 4, Peter Baker, “Russia to Open Airspace to U.S. for Afghan War”, in New York Times:


endovenous

“What usually happens is someone comes in for endovenous treatments for larger veins and a lot of times they’ll say, ‘While you’re at it, take a look at these smaller veins and let me know if you can do anything about them,’ ” Dr. Zelickson said.

2009 September 10, Camille Sweeney, “Removing the Web of Spider Veins”, in New York Times:


hypercorrective

en-adj

hypercorrective (comparative more hypercorrective, superlative most hypercorrective)

more hypercorrective (comparative)
most hypercorrective (superlative)
hyper-corrective (alternative)

You need not be a hypercorrective schoolmarm to lament such tolerance.

2009 September 27, Jack Rosenthal, “Phantonym”, in New York Times:

Tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.


downarg

en-verb

downarg (third-person singular simple present downargs, present participle downarging, simple past and past participle downarged)

downargs (present singular third-person)
downarging (participle present)
downarged (participle past)
downarged (past)
donnarg (alternative)

(transitive, UK dialectal) To gainsay or contradict in an overbearing, domineering manner; browbeat; assert violently.


uptrain

uptrain (third-person singular simple present uptrains, present participle uptraining, simple past and past participle uptrained)

uptrains (present singular third-person)
uptraining (participle present)
uptrained (participle past)
uptrained (past)


underagent

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teleguidance

Remote guidance, as of a missile or spacecraft.


overbounteous

en-adj

overbounteous (comparative more overbounteous, superlative most overbounteous)

more overbounteous (comparative)
most overbounteous (superlative)


octopede

octopedes (plural)
octoped (alternative)
octopod (alternative)

From octo- + -pede. Piecewise doublet of octopus.

Spiders are octopedes.


monometallist

monometallist (comparative more monometallist, superlative most monometallist)

more monometallist (comparative)
most monometallist (superlative)


downclock

en-verb

downclock (third-person singular simple present downclocks, present participle downclocking, simple past and past participle downclocked)

downclocks (present singular third-person)
downclocking (participle present)
downclocked (participle past)
downclocked (past)

(transitive, computing) To reduce the clock speed of.


underaction

en-noun

underaction (countable and uncountable, plural underactions)

/ˌʌndəɹˈækʃən/

The least and most trivial episodes or underactions […] are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design.

1697, Virgil, “Dedication to Virgil's Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page [151]:

Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode.


pedoscope

From the name of the British company that manufactured them, from pedo- (“foot”) + -scope. Piecewise doublet of podoscope.

A fluoroscope formerly used in shoe shops to aid in the fitting of shoes, especially to children; eventually banned because of the health risks from X-rays.

National Museum of Health and Medicine
shoe-fitting fluoroscope


biphenol

(organic chemistry) Any compound that has two phenolic hydroxy groups; such a phenolic derivative of biphenyl


bimorph

Rapid solution exchanges were accomplished through a series of flow pipes mounted onto a piezoelectric bimorph to evoke NMDA receptor currents.

1999 July 2, “Regulation of NMDA Receptors by an Associated Phosphatase-Kinase Signaling Complex”, in Science, volume 285, number 5424, →DOI, pages 93–96:

A cantilever that consists of two active layers: piezoelectric and metal.


Mid-Atlantic

This will feel like a dream compared to the chilly high temperatures forecast from the mid-Atlantic to New England, where you’ll be lucky to see the mercury in the thermometer climb out of the 40’s.

2021 January 16, Derek Van Dam, “Northeast will be wet and chilly while Southern California should sizzle during holiday weekend”, in CNN:

The middle of the East Coast of the United States, typically consisting of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC.


bigyrotropic

Exhibiting gyrotropy in two separate senses


upconvert

en-verb

upconvert (third-person singular simple present upconverts, present participle upconverting, simple past and past participle upconverted)

upconverts (present singular third-person)
upconverting (participle present)
upconverted (participle past)
upconverted (past)

(transitive) To convert (an audio or video signal, etc.) from a lower quality or resolution to a higher one.


monoski

A variant of a downhill skiing/alpine skiing ski, that is very wide, allowing for both right and left ski boots to the attached to the same ski, with a doubled-up set of bindings, placed side-by-side. It has the appearance of an extremely wide ski or narrow alpine snowboard, though with binding mounting locations similar to that of a regular ski.

A type of sitski with a single ski, used by wheelchair-bound skiers in downhill skiing and para-alpine. It is paired with outriggers, ski poles that have skis attached to the bottom, instead of the pick/spike, to function as outrigger runners for the skier sitting in the monoski.


underaccomplished

en-adj

underaccomplished (comparative more underaccomplished, superlative most underaccomplished)

more underaccomplished (comparative)
most underaccomplished (superlative)

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Insufficiently accomplished; not having done or achieved enough.


biphobe

Specifically, those of us who are bisexual do not want to take over lesbian/gay environments or use bisexual concerns to shut down lesbian/gay concerns, regardless of what some biphobes may say.

1990, Thomas Geller, editor, Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook, Times Change Press, →ISBN, page 63:

A person who has a negative perception of bisexuals and/or bisexuality.


midfacial

Mlade 5 has a Neandertal-like sagittal contour, a well-developed occipitomastoid crest, minimal mastoid projection, and evidence of midfacial prognathism, insofar as the marked anterior projection of the upper face predicts this.

2001 January 12, Milford H. Wolpoff et al., “Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI, pages 293–297:

The fully modern midfacial morphology of the fossils antedates other evidence of this feature by about 650,000 years.

1997 May 30, J. M. Bermudez de Castro et al., “A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans”, in Science, volume 276, number 5317, →DOI, pages 1392–1395:


deonym

From de- + -onym (“name”). Compare Italian deonomastica (“words of a language that are derived from given names, last names, ethnonyms, and toponyms”), from de- + onomastica.

m+

[...] increased occurrence of deonyms. Among them, nearly half come from trade names (company names, brand names or product names). This chapter aims to study deonyms deriving from trade names. An attempt will be made to understand why these proper names have[…]

2013 August 19, Oliviu Felecan, Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 172:

In linguistics, such terms that have managed the transformation from a proper brand name to a generic name are called deonyms […] The field of deonyms is not limited to brand names: The verb “röntgen,” for example, is derived from the discoverer of the rays named after him and is also a deonym. Some[…]

2021 October 25, Doris Berger-Grabner, Strategic Retail Management and Brand Management: Trends, Tactics, and Examples, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 318:

A third name for common words from proper nouns is the lexical type deonyms (with the study of deonyms referred to as deonomastics) (cf., e.g., La Stella 1984). For this chapter, eponym shall be defined as 'word going back to a proper noun (e.g. anthroponym, toponym, ethnonym)'. The chapter will focus on highly lexicalized words[…]

2025 March 31, Joachim Grzega, The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

A term which derives from a proper name (a proper noun), such as a brand name, a given name, a surname or a place name.


burocracy

en-noun

burocracy (countable and uncountable, plural burocracies)

/bjʊˈɹɑːkɹəsi/

… 1962 Style Book, p63, specifies the following: aging, altho, ameba, analog, apolog, burocracy, burocratic, …

1963, Henry Louis Mencken, The American language: an inquiry into the development of English in the United States., Digitized edition, published 2009, page 491:

In this way, inter-unit relationships can be specified in order to define at communication level some well-known agent organizations model such as hierachies, burocracies, federations, etc.

2009, Joan Cabestany, Francisco Sandoval, Alberto Prieto, Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence, Springer, →ISBN, page 525:

Burocracy is a choice!

2010, Bert Hedeman, Gabor Vis van Heemst, Hans Fredriksz, Project Manaagement Based on Principle2, 2009, Van Haren Publishing, →ISBN, page 173:

… namely the non human structure that enables a country generate future benefits: business structure, burocracy, …

2011, Geoff Turner, Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on on Intellectual Capital, Academic Conferences Limited, →ISBN, page 190:

But still more, even Marx himself in his criticism of Hegel's Theory of the State recognized the actual behavior of burocracy in contradiction …

2012, Armando P Ribas, Rule of Law: The Path to Freedom, Stockcero, →ISBN, page 107:

(US) Alternative spelling of bureaucracy.


lipoaspiration

lipoaspiration (usually uncountable, plural lipoaspirations)


biphotochromic

(physical chemistry) Having two photochromic centres


downmodulation

downmodulation (countable and uncountable, plural downmodulations)

downmodulations (plural)
down-modulation (alternative)


midinfrared

Within the infrared portion of the spectrum.


midcult

From mid- + cult, coined by Dwight Macdonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960).

Only thing Fitzgerald wrote that will last is The Great Gatsby—the rest (Tender Is The Night, The Last Tycoon) is midcult junk.

2012, Susan Sontag, “11/5/76”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.


downfault

(geology) A graben (area sunken relative to surrounding land).


aromantic

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(2005) From a- + romantic. Compare asexual. First coined in 2005 in Asexual Visibility and Education Network forums.

Ours is a generation of aromantics, jaded about matters of the heart — often before gaining firsthand experience.

1986, Wanda Urbanska, The Singular Generation, Doubleday & Company, published 1986, →ISBN, page 86:

Anna is an asexual, aromantic. Before discovering those terms, she assumed herself to merely be unusually disinterested in sex or relationships.

2012, Marina Hale, "The Drop-Down Menu Identity Crisis", Glass Buffalo (University of Alberta), Spring 2012, page 51

'I let it slip one time at work that I’m an asexual aromantic [an asexual who is also not interested in making romantic attachments], and they think it’s absolutely hysterical,’ says Jean Wilson, a sales assistant and 63-year-old grandmother from Banbury. 'One of the women I work with said, “I don’t think you’ve met the right man yet.” I said: “Trish, I’m 63. If I haven’t met him by now I don’t think I’m going to.”’

2012 November 12, Olivia Gordon, “'The moment I realised I was asexual'”, in The Telegraph:

One who does not experience romantic attraction to others.


bipterous

en-adj

bipterous (comparative more bipterous, superlative most bipterous)

more bipterous (comparative)
most bipterous (superlative)


misaction

en-noun

misaction (countable and uncountable, plural misactions)


bi-asexual

en-adj

bi-asexual (comparative more bi-asexual, superlative most bi-asexual)

more bi-asexual (comparative)
most bi-asexual (superlative)

Asexual people are often attracted to a specific gender just like sexual people are: you can be hetero-asexual, homo-asexual, or bi-asexual.

2006 April, “Asexuality 101”, in The Guide:

Similarly, Mona, a thirty year old white woman, said that she identifies as, “Bi-asexual. The things I find attractive, I find attractive in both sexes.”

2008 October, Kristin S. Scherrer, “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire”, in Sexualities, volume 11, number 5:

There was a survey held in the English forum of AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network), which is the longest running forum for asexual people and also claims the most members, according to which 23.7% of the users defined themselves as bi-asexual.

2011, Irina, "I am bi-asexual", Bijou, Issue 24, May 2011, page 36

(neologism) Romantically or aesthetically attracted to members of either sex, but not experiencing sexual attraction to others.


midpregnant

In the middle of pregnancy; during pregnancy.


fatphobic

fatphobic (comparative more fatphobic, superlative most fatphobic)

more fatphobic (comparative)
most fatphobic (superlative)

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Blake McCoy, a FOX5 DC anchor, was suspended for a fatphobic tweet he made about the vaccine on Feb. 23.

2021 March 9, Maura Judkis, “People are getting vaccinated due to their BMI. They have mixed feelings about it”, in Washington Post:


fatphobia

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Near-synonyms: sizeism, weightism

This is because medical authorities and proponents of public health are drawing from and amplifying the Western cultural fear and loathing of fatness, or fatphobia, with claims about a global 'obesity epidemic' (WHO 1998).

2008, Lee F. Monaghan, Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study, Routledge, published 2008, →ISBN, page 1:

Celebrity culture is intricately tied to fatphobia.

2009, Crystal Renn, Marjorie Ingall, Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

From long-lost high school friends found on Facebook to total strangers whom I'll probably never meet in person, I get asked questions from where to buy a good bra (my minimizer days are dead and buried) to how to deal with a spouse's fatphobia.

2012, Abby Weintraub, “Truce”, in Virgie Tovar, editor, Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion, Seal Press, →ISBN:

There are a lot of ways for people in the obese/eligible category to feel about it: […] Ambivalent about fatphobia in medicine working in their favor, for once.

Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.

Fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat.


upcharge

A surcharge for something additional, especially an upgrade (optional amenity).


upcharge

en-verb

upcharge (third-person singular simple present upcharges, present participle upcharging, simple past and past participle upcharged)

upcharges (present singular third-person)
upcharging (participle present)
upcharged (participle past)
upcharged (past)

To charge extra or to overcharge (charge someone a surcharge, or charge too much).

Threaten to upcharge, threaten consecutive sentencing.

2018, William R. Kelly, Confronting Underground Justice: Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 73:

To overcharge (charge someone with an inflated number or degree of legal charges).


upcore

en-adj

upcore (comparative more upcore, superlative most upcore)

more upcore (comparative)
most upcore (superlative)

Describing a sample taken from further up a core.


bicyclobutane

(organic chemistry) A bicyclic hydrocarbon consisting of two separate cyclobutane rings joined by a single bond.

(organic chemistry) A highly strained bicyclic hydrocarbon consisting of two fused cyclopropane rings.


fatphobe

The Thursday special of sweet/sour spareribs in a pineapple sauce is a joy, but not for the fatphobe.

2005, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 500 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 519:

I prefer this — the pork fat made the sauce a little too oily for absolute comfort, and I am no fatphobe, as you know — and more pointedly so do my children.

2010, Nigella Lawson, Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home, Knopf, →ISBN:

And clearly, so do a lot of other ladies around town—you know, the no-cream-in-the-soup crowd, the no-butter-in-the-risotto customer, your garden-variety fatphobe.

2012, Eileen Daspin, The Manhattan Diet: Lose Weight While Living a Fabulous Life, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

A person who worries excessively about the fat content of their food.


biplot

A kind of statistical graph, a generalization of the simple two-variable scatter plot, allowing information on both samples and variables of a data matrix to be displayed graphically.


bimorphism

(category theory) A morphism which is both a monomorphism and an epimorphism.


midsectional

From midsection + -al or mid- + sectional.


midmotion

He was dancing, but when I entered the room he stopped in midmotion.


midchannel

Far out the great ships were keeping mid-channel as scenting danger to come.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(geography, navigation) In the middle of a channel.


fructophilic

(biochemistry, of a yeast) able to ferment fructose


antirent

antirent (comparative more antirent, superlative most antirent)

more antirent (comparative)
most antirent (superlative)

(US, historical) Opposing the collection of outstanding rents in upstate New York during the early 19th century after the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer III.


bi-Lipschitz

Being an injective Lipschitz function whose inverse function is also Lipschitz.


cisphobia

One could then speak of 'cisphobia' or 'heterophobia', claiming adequate protection for cisgender and straight persons.

2012, Laura Palazzani, Gender in Philosophy and Law, Springer, published 2012, →ISBN, page 101:

Piers Morgan has claimed to be the “victim of cisphobia” after several members of the transgender community blasted his ignorance on Twitter.

2014 February 6, Jenn Selby, “Piers Morgan claims he’s a ‘victim of cisphobia’ after transgender community blast his ignorance on Twitter”, in The Independent:

Most of the time this leads to white boys screaming about cisphobia and reverse racism, but that's the post when everyone just ignores them and lets them wallow in their ignorance.

2014, Sydney Valenzuela, "The addictive and intricate qualities of the underdog networking site, Tumblr", Eye of the Tiger (Roseville High School, Roseville, California), Volume 12, Issue 9, 24 February 2014, page 10

Fear or hatred of cissexuality or cisgenderism, or of cis individuals.

cisfòbia

fear or hatred of cissexuality or cissgenderism


bicylinder

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(geometry) A solid formed by two intersecting cylinders.


midtest

A test administered partway through a course of instruction.


downconvert

en-verb

downconvert (third-person singular simple present downconverts, present participle downconverting, simple past and past participle downconverted)

downconverts (present singular third-person)
downconverting (participle present)
downconverted (participle past)
downconverted (past)

(transitive) To convert (an audio or video signal, etc.) from a higher quality or resolution to a lower one.


midvein

(botany) The main vein of a simple leaf or leaflet, running from the petiole to its apex, and from which the other veins usually spread.


underanalysis

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This rule is so well entrenched in evidence that apparent deviations from it are likely to be cases of underanalysis.

2003, Guity Nashat, Lois Beck, Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800:


underaccommodate

underaccommodate (third-person singular simple present underaccommodates, present participle underaccommodating, simple past and past participle underaccommodated)

underaccommodates (present singular third-person)
underaccommodating (participle present)
underaccommodated (participle past)
underaccommodated (past)

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Giles and colleagues suggest that the elderly may underaccomodate the needs of younger social partners.

1996, Monisha Pasupathi, Aging and Social Influence, page 4:

Similarly, speech accommodation theory predicts that people over accomod ate (e.g., use baby talk) or underaccomodate (e.g., insufficiently engage) based on their expectations, but the theory does not focus uniquely on stereotypic expectations or prejudices against the target group.

2001, Janet B. Ruscher, Prejudiced Communication: A Social Psychological Perspective, →ISBN:


underaccommodation

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Friendships with members of a younger cohort may also be marked by underaccomodation, a linguistic phenomenon in which older adults engage in egocentric topic selection during conversation.

2003, Charles M Dorn, John O. Greene, Brant Raney Burleson, Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills, →ISBN, page 665:

(sociolinguistics) Insufficient convergence; the situation where a speaker is underaccommodative.

...attributed to the fact that infantile astigmatism can disrupt emmetropization by reducing an infant sensitivity to focusing signals, thus leading to underaccomodation or alignment impairment with a physiological fix of elongated eye ball [18].

2016, Moheem Masumali Halari, Chidambra Dhariwal Halari, Otohinoyi David Adeiza, D'Souza Ryan Alex Francis, Igberi Ugochi Calista, Akanbi Hameed Ayotunde, “Prevalence of Eye Defects Among Medical Students in Dominica”, in erican Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, volume 18, number 1:

(ophthalmology) The improper adjustment of the eye muscles so that the focal point of a target image falls short of the retina.

Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that the ADA may not be having its intended impact.In fact, it appears that underaccomodation continues to be a major barrier to equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities (Braddock & Bachelder, 1994).

2001, Burton Gummer, “Peer relationships in organizations: Mutual assistance, employees with disabilities, and distributive justice”, in Administration in Social Work, volume 25, number 4:

Failure to provide adequate accommodation to the needs of someone.


underaccommodative

en-adj

underaccommodative (comparative more underaccommodative, superlative most underaccommodative)

more underaccommodative (comparative)
most underaccommodative (superlative)

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downgradient

downgradient (comparative more downgradient, superlative most downgradient)

more downgradient (comparative)
most downgradient (superlative)

Monitoring wells are installed downgradient of a contamination source to detect a contaminant plume.

(hydrology) a location that receives groundwater from another location; similar to downstream.


upgradient

upgradient (comparative more upgradient, superlative most upgradient)

more upgradient (comparative)
most upgradient (superlative)

Uncontaminated groundwater is found upgradient of a contamination source.

(hydrology) a location that is the source groundwater for another location; similar to upstream.


downvalue

en-verb

downvalue (third-person singular simple present downvalues, present participle downvaluing, simple past and past participle downvalued)

downvalues (present singular third-person)
downvaluing (participle present)
downvalued (participle past)
downvalued (past)

(transitive) To reduce in value; to devalue.


midchain

(organic chemistry) In the middle of an aliphatic chain


bimorphemic

Consisting of, or relating to, two morphemes


midclass

To her surprise, a few of them were furnished like midclass hotel rooms, with plain industrial carpet covering the floor, standard-sized beds, and inoffensive decor.

Of a class or category that is neither very low nor very high; intermediate.


downstaging

en-noun

downstaging (usually uncountable, plural downstagings)

The goal of downstaging is to decrease the size and number of tumors in patients who do not meet the criteria for transplantation on initial evaluation.

2014, Nicholas J. Zyromski, Handbook of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, →ISBN:

(oncology) A reduction in the stage of a cancer, from a more to a less threatening stage.


upcurve

en-verb

upcurve (third-person singular simple present upcurves, present participle upcurving, simple past and past participle upcurved)

upcurves (present singular third-person)
upcurving (participle present)
upcurved (participle past)
upcurved (past)


midthoracic

Corpectomy and total spondylectomy are performed not only in the lumbar spine but also in the proximal and midthoracic spine.

2015 July 1, Jung-Hoon Kim et al., “A biomechanical comparison of 360° stabilizations for corpectomy and total spondylectomy: a cadaveric study in the thoracolumbar spine”, in Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, volume 10, →DOI:


midabdominal

The experimental vasectomy operation was performed under sodium pentobarbital (50 mg/kg body weight, i.p) anesthesia via a lower midabdominal incision as described elsewhere.

2015 July 10, “Abnormal Accumulation of Collagen Type I Due to the Loss of Discoidin Domain Receptor 2 (Ddr2) Promotes Testicular Interstitial Dysfunction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


equinophobia

Then there was her equinophobia. Did I mention her reaction to horses? Millie would become completely unstrung at the sight of a horse, of which there are a surprising number on the streets of Manhattan, […]

2017, Edward Grinnan, Always By My Side, page 139:

What is equinophobia? Many people have a love of horses, but some people are frightened of them.

2023, Bernadette Johnson, The Big Book of Horse Trivia for Kids:


midsolo

Less than a minute to go and she's chewing almost viciously, her stuffed cheeks all chipmunked out like Dizzy Gillespie's in midsolo.


midaxillary

The zero reference point for pressure recordings was set at the level of the right atrium in the midaxillary line (phlebostatic axis).

2015 July 14, “Mutation in BMPR2 Promoter: A ‘Second Hit’ for Manifestation of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(anatomy) Describing a vertical line on the body downwards from the armpit


midzone

Higher magnification insets show a higher concentration of KLP-7 at the region between meiotic chromosomes in metaphase I and II (arrows), and to the spindle midzone between the separating chromosomes in anaphase II (arrowhead).

2015 July 14, “The KLP-7 Residue S546 Is a Putative Aurora Kinase Site Required for Microtubule Regulation at the Centrosome in C . elegans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midspinal

Therefore, two full-thickness skin wounds that were 2 cm in diameter and 1–1.5 cm off the midspinal line were established on the each side of the dorsum of rats (60 days old).

2015 June 16, Yan Shi et al., “Wnt and Notch signaling pathway involved in wound healing by targeting c-Myc and Hes1 separately”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, volume 6, →DOI:


radiophilic

en-adj

radiophilic (comparative more radiophilic, superlative most radiophilic)

more radiophilic (comparative)
most radiophilic (superlative)

That thrives in the presence of ionizing radiation


midtarsal

a demonstration of how to examine the midtarsal joint area

Of or relating to the state of being jointed between the two rows of tarsal bones in a foot.


underactivation

en-noun

underactivation (countable and uncountable, plural underactivations)

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A recent quantitative meta-analysis combining results from 65 fMRI studies (N = 1040 BD cases and 1074 healthy controls) found underactivation in the inferior frontal cortex and overactivation in limbic areas in BD patients relative to controls across emotional paradigms.

2015 July 30, “Altered Brain Activation during Emotional Face Processing in Relation to Both Diagnosis and Polygenic Risk of Bipolar Disorder”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


upcode

Upcode includes the mental codes that shape human thought and behavior from within and the cultural codes that operate on us, often invisibly, from without: personal morality, religious rituals, social norms, legal rules, corporate policies, professional ethics, website terms of service. Downcode is run by computers, upcode by humans.

2023, Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks, pages 12-13:

(computing) The behavioral norms which influence how software (or "downcode") is produced.


midturn

The ballet dancer stopped in midturn.


midmovement

His stop-motion photographs, by turn, recall the early images of Eadweard Muybridge, who captured men or horses in midmovement, or the staged photo sequences by performance artists like Gina Pane and Vito Acconci.

2015 August 6, Jason Farago, “Review: ‘Drawing Waves’ and ‘Borne Frieze,’ a Robin Rhode Twofer”, in New York Times:


midriver

He walked up onto a small patch of land that was in front of us midriver and then strolled back into the water heading downstream, never even looking our way.

2015 August 6, Jenna Schnuer, “At Katmai National Park in Alaska, Bears Rule”, in New York Times:


middorsal

Neck and segment 1 of Semnoderes armiger in dorsal view, showing the deep middorsal incision in the anterior segment margin (arrow) (character 17, state 2).

2015 July 23, “Phylogeny of Kinorhyncha Based on Morphology and Two Molecular Loci”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midsternal

Ventral view of segments 2 and 3 in Meristoderes macracanthus, showing partly differentiated lateral fissures (black/white arrows) on segment 2, but no midsternal fissure (character 19, state 1).


midterminal

Accordingly, Cyclorhagida is divided into three main lineages: Echinoderidae, Campyloderidae, and a large clade, ‘Kentrorhagata’, which except for species of Campyloderes, includes all species with a midterminal spine present in adult individuals.


midventral

Neck and segment 1 of Sphenoderes poseidon in ventral view, showing the deep midventral incision in the anterior segment margin (arrow) (character 17, state 2).


midgestational

However, the importance of the high expression of 11β-HSD2 within the midgestational fetal brain is unknown.

2015, Caitlin Wyrwoll et al., “Fetal brain 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 selectively determines programming of adult depressive-like behaviors and cognitive function, but not anxiety behaviors in male mice”, in Psychoneuroendocrinology, volume 59, →DOI:


midcoronal

For each mouse, a midcoronal section of the left kidney was fixed in Duboscq-Brazil solution for 60 minutes followed by post-fixation in buffered 10% formaldehyde solution until paraffin embedding.

2015 August 13, “1-Methyl-D-Tryptophan Potentiates TGF-β-Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in T24 Human Bladder Cancer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midpapillary

M-Mode measurements at the midpapillary level of the left ventricle (LV) were performed at end-diastole (LVEDD) and end-systole (LVESD) to determine LV function via the fractional shortening [(LVEDD-LVESD)/LVEDD * 100] in a parasternal short axis mode for at least three heart beats.

2015 August 13, “c-Myc Alters Substrate Utilization and O-GlcNAc Protein Posttranslational Modifications without Altering Cardiac Function during Early Aortic Constriction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


bitrophic

Instead, most experiments have ignored the role played by the first trophic level (i.e. the plant) and focused on preference and performance by parasitoids in a bitrophic system (for review, see [8 ,15 ]).

2015 August 14, “Aphid Parasitoid Mothers Don't Always Know Best through the Whole Host Selection Process”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Describing a parasite that feeds on another parasite


midbattle

An opening flashback finds him midbattle, blades flying and cabernet-red blood gushing to the roar of power chords.

2015 September 14, James Poniewozik, “Review: In ‘The Bastard Executioner,’ a Warrior Switches Blades”, in New York Times:


midcoastal

en-adj

midcoastal (comparative more midcoastal, superlative most midcoastal)

more midcoastal (comparative)
most midcoastal (superlative)

Tripoli is controlled by a political faction centered in the midcoastal city of Misurata that also includes Islamist groups and militias.

2015 September 18, Suliman Ali Zway, “ISIS Group Attacks Prison in Libya”, in New York Times:

Situated in the middle of a stretch of coastline.


midlogarithmic

Consistent with this hypothesis, many of the metabolites in cluster 5 are branched chain amino acids and their derivatives, which are known to be metabolized during midlogarithmic phase [22 ].

2015 August 19, “Dynamic Metabolite Profiling in an Archaeon Connects Transcriptional Regulation to Metabolic Consequences”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Describing the middle of the logarithmic growth phase of bacteria etc


downtrace

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Shouldn't each CAPSTONE general officer command (GOCOM) be made a miniArmy Reserve command (ARCOM), with direct responsibility for training its USAR and active component downtrace (contingency chain of command)?

The 228th Signal Brigade (HHC), South Carolina National Guard, part of the 335th's command downtrace, was also not mobilized or deployed, despite its mission to provide area signal support to Third Army/ARCENT.

1992, JP Bird, Crossed Signals on the Battlefield:

It is a six-phase, joint command post exercise for theater agencies, theater army units, a theater army area command and corps support command and their downtraces, corps troops, and other services equivalents.

With the better understaing of the Iraqi Brigade Commander's approach to battle-planning, the Irish MiTT worked at getting a general concept of the Commander's plan early in the planning process to share with the downtrace units so the Battalions would have greater opportunity to plan, rehearse, and resource their battle plans.

2010, Voris Weldon McBurnette, The 108th Training Command, →ISBN:

(military) The set of subordinate units lower in the chain of command from a specified unit.


upconcentrate

en-verb

upconcentrate (third-person singular simple present upconcentrates, present participle upconcentrating, simple past and past participle upconcentrated)

upconcentrates (present singular third-person)
upconcentrating (participle present)
upconcentrated (participle past)
upconcentrated (past)

To increase the concentration of one component of a mixture


underactivity

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midcommissural

All coordinates are relative to the midcommissural point (MCP).

2015 September 15, “Using MDEFT MRI Sequences to Target the GPi in DBS Surgery”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midfrontal

In this study, the P1 peaked at the frontal region, and the P1 modulation peaked at the midfrontal area.

2015 September 15, “The Complex Pre-Execution Stage of Auditory Cognitive Control: ERPs Evidence from Stroop Tasks”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midperipheral

Central was defined as juxtapapillary and within the vessel arcade, midperipheral as between the vessel arcade and the equator, and peripheral as anterior to the equator.

2015 September 15, “Distribution of GNAQ and GNA11 Mutation Signatures in Uveal Melanoma Points to a Light Dependent Mutation Mechanism”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midmyocardial

Action potentials were recorded from the midmyocardial region at different pacing rates (4000, 2000, 1000, 500, 333 and 250 ms BCL) using floating microelectrodes (Fig 9 ).

2015 September 17, “Molecular Cloning and Functional Expression of the Equine K + Channel K V 11.1 (Ether à Go-Go-Related/KCNH2 Gene) and the Regulatory Subunit KCNE2 from Equine Myocardium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midmyocardium

Recordings from the midmyocardium were made 30 min after cannulation (control) and 30 min after application of terfenadine (10 μM) using a floating microelectrode made from 1B100F-4 glass capillaries with filament (WPI).


midperiphery

At day 7, CECs appeared at the periphery and scanty cells existed at the midperiphery and center 7 days after injury.

2015 September 18, “Recovery of Corneal Endothelial Cells from Periphery after Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midauction

As at a bad play, people may well leave in midauction.

2015 October 28, Judith H. Dobrzynski, “How Auction Houses Orchestrate Sales for Maximum Drama”, in New York Times:


globophobia

From Latin globus (“sphere”) + -o- + -phobia, equivalent to globe + -o- + -phobia.

Although some have dismissed such fears as “globophobia”, globalization has come under greater critical public scrutiny.

2003, Albrecht Schnabel, Jan Aart Scholte, Civil Society and Global Finance, →ISBN, page 252:

People are dangerously suffering from globophobia says a senior floor trader in New York.

2005, Human Rights in a Developing Society, →ISBN, page 25:

'Globophobia may constitute a satisfying political response to the complex challenges of globalisation for some, but it does not constitute a credible policy response capable of shaping the actions of governments'.

2005, Rowan Gill, Theology and Globalisation: A Commentary, →ISBN, page 35:

Discourses of globalization initially were polarized into pro or con “globophilia” that celebrates globalization contrasted to globophobia that attacks it.

2007, Ino Rossi, Frontiers of Globalization Research, →ISBN:

Those who can be said to suffer from globophobia include those who adopt both far right and far left political positions.

2008, George Ritzer, The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, →ISBN, page 16:


midrate

Reginald, who is in his 50s, moves around the country, and sometimes internationally, for his work as a midrate motivational speaker.

2015 November 9, Dwight Garner, “Review: In ‘Hotels of North America,’ Rick Moody Examines the Middle-Aged Male in Free Fall”, in New York Times:

Charging or costing a moderate rate, neither very high nor very low.


midluteal

The COH agonist protocol was use of other than a midluteal long GnRH-agonist (Daphiline Beaufour IPSEN, France, 0.8–1.0mg, subcutaneously) suppressive protocol or short GnRH-agonist (Daphiline Beaufour IPSEN, France, 0.05–0.1mg, subcutaneously) suppressive protocol (agonist group).

2015 October 1, “Clinical Considerations of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Monogenic Diseases”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midplantar

The filament touch the midplantar surface of the ipsilateral paw and measurements were taken automatically as we described previously [16, 17, 25, 31 ].

2015 October 2, “PD98059 Influences Immune Factors and Enhances Opioid Analgesia in Model of Neuropathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Relating to the middle of the sole of the foot


biwiring

The situation where each loudspeaker has two pairs of connectors and two cables are run from the same amplifier output to the speaker cabinet, claimed by some audiophiles to improve the sound quality.


biwired

Of audio equipment: set up using biwiring.


midmembraneous

Nine animals underwent transmuscular surgical injury bilaterally to the vocal folds by removing a biopsy at the midmembraneous point from the epithelium down to the thyroarytenoid muscle using 2mm cup microforceps.

2015 October 3, “Characterization of the Leukocyte Response in Acute Vocal Fold Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midsutural

Data suggest slight decreases in markers of proliferation in the periosteal and midsutural areas analyzed.

2015 October 3, “Effects of Citalopram on Sutural and Calvarial Cell Processes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


pentalingual

Written in or otherwise expressed through five languages.


tripack

en-noun

tripack (countable and uncountable, plural tripacks)

In 1897 du Hauron conceived the idea of using a tripack for recording color photographs.

2013, John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography:

(photography) Film that has three emulsions sensitive to red, green, or blue stacked on top of one another.


biset

(mathematics) A pair of ordered sets of the same magnitude.


biphonation

biphonation (countable and uncountable, plural biphonations)

NLP is signified as follows: DC = deterministic chaos, BP = biphonation, SH = subharmonics.

2015 October 15, “The Acoustic Structure and Information Content of Female Koala Vocal Signals”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

The voicing of two pitches at the same time.


cartophilist

A person who collects cigarette cards as a hobby.


midstratum

Cytoplasmic FGFR-3 expression was observed in upper and midstratum layer of lining epithelium, stromal fibroblast cells, tumor cells and seldom in endothelium of tumor stroma as shown in “Fig 3A, 3B and 3C ”. 75% cases (81/108) of OSCC, 40.28% cases (29/72) of PMOLs and 36.54% (19/52) controls stained positive for FGFR-3.

2015 October 15, “Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF-2) and Its Receptors FGFR-2 and FGFR-3 May Be Putative Biomarkers of Malignant Transformation of Potentially Malignant Oral Lesions into Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


infantophile

A pedophile who is sexually attracted to infants and other very young children (generally age 0–4).


underadvertised

en-adj

underadvertised (comparative more underadvertised, superlative most underadvertised)

more underadvertised (comparative)
most underadvertised (superlative)

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bigenic

Briefly, a Camk2α promoter was used to drive expression of the tetracycline transactivator protein (Camk2α-tTa), and a tetracycline responsive promoter was used to drive ΔNLS-hTDP-43 expression (tetO-ΔNLS-hTDP-43) such that ΔNLS-hTDP-43 protein expression was inhibited by doxycycline in bigenic mice (Camk2a-tTa x tetO-ΔNLS-hTDP-43).

2015 October 29, “Transcriptomic Changes Due to Cytoplasmic TDP-43 Expression Reveal Dysregulation of Histone Transcripts and Nuclear Chromatin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


bidisc

(mathematics) A polydisc of the second order


biweight

We began by mapping peptides to all possible proteins, and we then took the weighted mean (also known as Tukey’s biweight; implemented in the R Bioconductor package “affy”) to obtain a protein intensity that is more robust than the summation of intensities [36 –38 ].

2015 November 6, “A Pilot Proteogenomic Study with Data Integration Identifies MCT1 and GLUT1 as Prognostic Markers in Lung Adenocarcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(mathematics) Any of various weighted means


upcurrent

There was no time to take evasive action, and the airship was caught in a violent upcurrent.


downcurrent

downcurrents (plural)
down-current (alternative)

Missing units may be attributed to either the lack of proper sized material in the source or the successive, downcurrent sedimentation of the coarser materials first and the finer materials last.

2012, Paul E. Potter, James Maynard, Wayne A. Pryor, Sedimentology of Shale: Study Guide and Reference Source:


cartophilic

cartophilic (comparative more cartophilic, superlative most cartophilic)

more cartophilic (comparative)
most cartophilic (superlative)

Taking part in, or relating to, the hobby of collecting cigarette cards.

Taking part in, or relating to, the hobby of mapmaking.


underallocation

en-noun

underallocation (countable and uncountable, plural underallocations)

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Combining data from males from this experiment (plus females in the underallocation treatment) and females from the Creighton et al.

2015 November 25, “Differences in Patterns of Reproductive Allocation between the Sexes in Nicrophorus orbicollis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A less than normal, or insufficient, allocation.


Hetero sapiens

From hetero (short for heterosexual) + translingual Homo sapiens, as if Homo (“the name of the taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae people are placed in”) were short for homosexual, while in truth it derives from Latin homō (“human being, man”).

Man and woman, I said? In this day and age, forget gender! The problem is even more poignant if we consider any combination of Homo and Hetero sapiens getting married. Which name do they take?

2005, Jim Wegryn, Funny Thing about Names: An Entertaining Look at Naming in America, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 62:

(humorous) Collectively, straight people.


midinterval

Likewise, mean FC levels in controls were significantly higher than in study subjects and above the upper limit of the normal range at midinterval and before the infusion (Fig 2C ).

2015 December 16, “Low Dose Infliximab for Prevention of Postoperative Recurrence of Crohn’s Disease: Long Term Follow-Up and Impact of Infliximab Trough Levels and Antibodies to Infliximab”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


bilipidic

In cells, Amp B interacts with the bilipidic layers forming pores, leading to the loss of osmotic regulation capacity of the cells.

2015 December 17, “The Effect of Ursolic Acid on Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis Is Related to Programed Cell Death and Presents Therapeutic Potential in Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midposterior

The fibular condyle projects laterally and possesses a shallow notch in the midposterior part.

2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midsphere

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The edges are omitted as irrelevant to the present argument, but the midspheres are still included because Kepler rather casually substitutes the midsphere for the insphere of the octahedron, since it happens to give a value closer to the observed distance.

1999, Richard Padovan, Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture, page 260:

A face of a Catalan solid can be simply constructed by the Dorman-Luke construction [3, 4, 6, 16], which is based on a dualization process known as polar reciprocation [6], with respect to the midsphere.

2003, Rona Gurkewitz, Bennett Arnstein, Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality, page 4:

The Archimedean solids can all be inscribed in a sphere and in one of the Platonic solids. Their duals are the Catalan solids, with faces that are congruent but not regular (face-transitive); indtead of circumspheres like the Archimedean solids, they have inspheres. The midspheres, touching the edges, are common to both of them.

2014, Walter Steurer, “Crystal Structures of Metallic Elements and Compounds”, in David E. Laughlin, Kazuhiro Hono, editors, Physical Metallurgy, 5th edition, volume 1, page 20:

(geometry, solid geometry) The sphere which, if it exists, is tangent to every edge of a given polyhedron and with respect to which the polyhedron's vertices are the inversion poles of the planes of the faces of its dual polyhedron (and vice versa).

intersphere

sphere tangent to every edge of a polyhedron


biphonic

All study dholes produced both high-frequency and biphonic calls.

2016 January 6, “Potential Sources of High Frequency and Biphonic Vocalization in the Dhole ( Cuon alpinus )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Consisting of two pitches at the same time


upjet

en-verb

upjet (third-person singular simple present upjets, present participle upjetting, simple past and past participle upjetted)

upjets (present singular third-person)
upjetting (participle present)
upjetted (participle past)
upjetted (past)


sapiophile

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm a sapiophile. I'm attracted to intelligent and unique men.

2014, Jennifer Gibson Joseph, Daith Hardd: Life, Love and the Beautiful Journey of Finding My Authentic Self, Lulu.com, published 2014, →ISBN:

She's a registered Sapiophile, a proud Geek since long before Geek was chic and believes that everyone deserves a happily ever after.

2014, A. D. Marrow, Love and Other Cosmic Nonsense:

“My advice to smart single ladies? Go find a^([sic]) emotionally healthy man with high self-esteem,” she says. “He'll most likely be a sapiophile (someone who finds intelligence the most sexually attractive feature), and you'll be good to go!”

2015 November 2, Simone Paget, Sarnia Observer:

I mean, I get the sapiophile thing, but that's still one hell of a stretch.

2016, Kelley Armstrong, Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing:

The sapiophiles and muses of Arch Avenue

2016, T. Dove Lourde, We Rent These Bodies:

A person who is attracted, whether it be sexually, romantically, or otherwise, to intelligence or intelligent people rather than to the physical appearance.


midcircle

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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.

1994, Tim Gallagher, Bruce Piper, “Chapter 7: Convexity Preserving Surface Interpolation”, in Nickolas S. Sapidis, editor, Designing Fair Curves and Surfaces, page 179:

(inversive geometry) A reference generalised circle through which two given circles are inverses of each other.

circle of antisimilitude

circle through which two given circles are inverse of each other

Every triangle has a midcircle, and its center is the fourth kind of middle point that a triangle can have. In 1767 Leonhard Euler proved that for all triangles, the orthocenter, the circumcenter, the centroid and the center of the midcircle are always on the same line.

2010, Alex Bellos, Here's Looking at Euclid, page 61:

(geometry) The circle (if one exists) that passes through the midpoint of each side of a given polygon, especially a triangle.


midlittoral

In each sector, three sampling sites (100s m apart from each other) were randomly selected for the surveys of benthic assemblages on rocky reefs from the lower midlittoral and the shallow infralittoral.

2016 February 13, “The Challenge of Planning Conservation Strategies in Threatened Seascapes: Understanding the Role of Fine Scale Assessments of Community Response to Cumulative Human Pressures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(geography) In the middle part of a seashore.


downdate

downdate (third-person singular simple present downdates, present participle downdating, simple past and past participle downdated)

downdates (present singular third-person)
downdating (participle present)
downdated (participle past)
downdated (past)

These excavations should be downdated.


midoccipital

(anatomy) Relating to the central portion of the occiput.


midstorey

Species richness was highest in the understorey community (193 species) and decreased with sampling height, with 167 and 115 species detected in the midstorey and canopy strata respectively.

2016 March 8, “Past Human Disturbance Effects upon Biodiversity are Greatest in the Canopy; A Case Study on Rainforest Butterflies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


midnuptial

Therefore, the modern rule is that midnuptial agreements do not inherently violate public policy Courts no longer view antenuptial and midnuptial agreements as void per se, but such agreements still receive special treatment.


midcolon

In the case of the gut, three 1-cm sections were pooled from the proximal colon, the midcolon region, and the rectum of each mouse.

2015 May 26, Amanda Fortes Francisco et al., “Limited Ability of Posaconazole To Cure both Acute and Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi Infections Revealed by Highly Sensitive In Vivo Imaging”, in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, volume 59, →DOI:


midanterior

In 15 cases it was only basal anterior segment; basal anterior and midanterior segment were missed in only 2 cases.

2015 July 5, Jan Baxa et al., “Regadenoson-Stress Dynamic Myocardial Perfusion Improves Diagnostic Performance of CT Angiography in Assessment of Intermediate Coronary Artery Stenosis in Asymptomatic Patients”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:


midatrial

A total of 13 LA regions, 5 regions adjoining the mitral annulus, and 5 regions in the midatrial wall were examined; in each view, the superior, or “roof,” region, corresponding to the area encompassing the region between the 4 pulmonary veins, was also examined [ 103 ].

2015 July 7, Roman Leischik et al., “Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Atrial Mechanics: Function, History, Novel Techniques, Advantages, and Pitfalls”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:


midseptal

This paper described a specific time schedule of atrial contraction (early atrial activation of midseptal annulus and roof and later activation of the anterior and lateral annulus were suggested).


midventricle

The location of IVO was analyzed and found at the level of the LVOT or at the level of the midventricle.

2015 June 17, Jean-Louis Chauvet et al., “Early dynamic left intraventricular obstruction is associated with hypovolemia and high mortality in septic shock patients”, in Critical Care, volume 19, →DOI:


bilobectomy

The majority of surgeries were performed using wedge resection ( n = 439, 71.4 %), followed by lobectomy ( n = 109, 17.7 %), segmentectomy ( n = 41, 6.7 %), precision excision ( n = 20, 3.3 %), bilobectomy ( n = 5, 0.8 %), and pneumonectomy ( n = 1, 0.2 %).

2015 July 25, Jong Ho Cho et al., “The prognostic importance of the number of metastases in pulmonary metastasectomy of colorectal cancer”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology, volume 13, →DOI:

(surgery) Removal of two lobes of the right lung (middle plus right upper or lower)


uptitration

en-noun

uptitration (usually uncountable, plural uptitrations)

From up- + titration; compare also upregulation and downregulation.

Somewhat counterintuitively, but perhaps due to indirect effects on the renin–angiotensin system, Scherer and colleagues (2013) found that appropriate uptitration of BBs improves HRQoL in elderly HF patients with reported benefits in general health, vitality, and physical function, although physical capacity was not objectively quantified. Regarding the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system, as discussed above, administration of ACE inhibitors in normal aging may have a modest effect in slowing the progression of muscle-related weakness, although results are variable.

2015 July 13, Deena S Goldwater, Sean P Pinney, “Frailty in Advanced Heart Failure: A Consequence of Aging or a Separate Entity?”, in Clinical Medicine Insights. Cardiology, volume 9, →DOI:

(medicine) The gradual increase of a dose accompanied by observation of effects, usually and especially to arrive at an optimal dose.


underactivated

en-adj

underactivated (comparative more underactivated, superlative most underactivated)

more underactivated (comparative)
most underactivated (superlative)

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Putative Wnt pathway targets were selected based on the following criteria: (1) an average fold change of 1.5-fold or more in deIs10 ; huIs1 (Wnt pathway overactivation) compared to control ( N2 ); (2) present and increased calls in at least two of three biological replicates; (3) ANOVA P ≤0.05; and (4) ratio of average fold change ≥1.5-fold between Wnt pathway overactivated ( deIs10 ; huIs1 ) and underactivated ( deIs10 ; deIs26 ) conditions.

2015 June 5, Lakshmi Gorrepati et al., “Identification of Wnt Pathway Target Genes Regulating the Division and Differentiation of Larval Seam Cells and Vulval Precursor Cells in Caenorhabditis elegans”, in G3: Genes, volume 5, →DOI:


midthorax

The Stardust II (Philips Respironics, The Netherlands) is a Type-3 portable monitor designed to measure and record five diagnostic parameters: SpO 2 (via finger probe), pulse rate (from the oximeter probe), airflow (pressure based airflow through a nasal cannula), respiratory effort (piezoelectric sensor in a belt placed midthorax), and body position (built-in mercury switch).

2015 July 21, Diego Alvarez-Estevez, Vicente Moret-Bonillo, “Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome: A Review”, in Sleep Disorders, volume 2015, →DOI:


midneurogenesis

An increase in nonvertical cleavage plane orientation of mouse aRG has been observed both upon knock-down of Spag5 and when Spag5 mRNA and protein levels in Pax6 mutant mice at midneurogenesis are elevated [ 47 ], suggesting that either too low or too high Spag5 levels perturb the normal, horizontal spindle orientation that is required for aRG vertical cleavage plane orientation.

2015 August 7, Fong Kuan Wong et al., “Sustained Pax6 Expression Generates Primate-like Basal Radial Glia in Developing Mouse Neocortex”, in PLoS Biology, volume 13, →DOI:


midlobe

In contrast, Sweet recognised it as a distinct species based on characteristics of the callus and midlobe shape, and the geographical subdivision by the Lydekker’s Line.

2015 August 16, Chi-Chu Tsai et al., “Biogeography of the Phalaenopsis amabilis species complex inferred from nuclear and plastid DNAs”, in BMC Plant Biology, volume 15, →DOI:


midproximal

Diagrams showing the percentage of nucleostemin-positive cells in the distal ( g ), injury ( h ) and midproximal ( i ) regions at one, two, eight and 17 weeks post-rupture.

2015 August 20, Eva Runesson et al., “Nucleostemin- and Oct 3/4-positive stem/progenitor cells exhibit disparate anatomical and temporal expression during rat Achilles tendon healing”, in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, volume 16, →DOI:

(anatomy) In the middle of the proximal region


uptitrate

en-verb

uptitrate (third-person singular simple present uptitrates, present participle uptitrating, simple past and past participle uptitrated)

uptitrates (present singular third-person)
uptitrating (participle present)
uptitrated (participle past)
uptitrated (past)

From up- + titrate; compare also upregulate and downregulate.

(medicine) To gradually increase a dose while observing the effects; (and usually, especially) to arrive at the optimal dose by so doing.


biscrolled

scrolled (twisted) in two different ways


downteching

Funny how quickly he'd gotten used to the downteching. Before, he'd never thought a person could get through a day without Federation flash and spark.

2002, Peter David, Esther Friesner, Diane Carey, Double Helix Omnibus:

The scaling down or simplifying of technical solutions, including the use of lower tech products or processes in an otherwise high tech environment


mid-terrace

They pooled the considerable sums and added another huge mortgage, this time based on two substantial incomes, and bought, at the start of the 1980s, the elegant, tall mid-terrace in Canonbury they still owned […]

So they still weren't really speaking when they found themselves at their destination for the evening – a Victorian mid-terrace on three floors almost identical to their own – and suddenly obliged to affect looks of anticipation and pleasure.

2016, Jonathan Dodds, A Spell in Winter:


bicyclisation

en-noun

bicyclisation (countable and uncountable, plural bicyclisations)

(organic chemistry) Any reaction that produces a bicyclic product


bipyrazyl

(organic chemistry, especially in combination) A univalent radical derived from bipyrazine

(organic chemistry) Synonym of bipyrazine.


bipyrrole

(organic chemistry) A bicyclic heterocycle composed of two pyrrole rings linked by a single bond


biorthogonalization

biorthogonalization (countable and uncountable, plural biorthogonalizations)

The proposed methods in particular draw upon the structural relevance and principles of orthogonalization and biorthogonalization and are presented from the perspectives of signal processing, convex programming, continuation methods and nonlinear projection operators.

2015, Tarek A. Lahlou, Alan V. Oppenheim, “Trading Accuracy for Numerical Stability: Orthogonalization, Biorthogonalization and Regularization”, in arXiv:

(mathematics) Conversion to biorthogonal form


bicyclohexane

bicyclohexane (countable and uncountable, plural bicyclohexanes)

We study both 5CB and a binary mixture of bicyclohexane derivatives (CCN-47 and CCN-55).

2016, Lisa Tran, Maxim O. Lavrentovich, Daniel A. Beller, Ningwei Li, Kathleen J. Stebe, Randall D. Kamien, “Lassoing Saddle-Splay: Topological Control of Topological Defects”, in arXiv:

(organic chemistry) The bicyclic alicyclic hydrocarbon cyclohexylcyclohexane


underactuation

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The control problem in these systems is challenging, especially with gravity coupling and large deformations, because of inherent underactuation and the combination of lumped and distributed parameters of a nonlinear system.

2016, Prasanna S. Gandhi, Pablo Borja, Romeo Ortega, “Energy Shaping Control of an Inverted Flexible Pendulum Fixed to a Cart”, in arXiv:


upscan

Here, we use decoupled-oscillator infrared spectroscopy to define the structural character of this phenomenon using similar down and upscan rates as in the calorimetric study.

2016, Sander Woutersen, Michiel Hilbers, Zuofeng Zhao, C. Austen Angell, “Liquid-liquid transition in supercooled aqueous solution involving a low-temperature phase similar to low-density amorphous water”, in arXiv:


midplace

midplaces (plural)
mid-place (alternative)

From Middle English mid-place, equivalent to mid- + place.

A “midplace,” or general stage, is also mentioned, with a little oratory furnished with stools and cushions.

1906, Modern Language Notes - Volume 21:

By placing the evacuated irradiation tubes so that the rolled up films are located near the source center line and symmetrically about its midplace reproducible dose rates with a variation of less than 1% over the films are easily attained […]

1959, William Walter Graessley, A Study of the Irradiation Method in the Measurement of Molecular Weight:

James Grotstein writes: In approaching a psychoanalytic conception of the borderline I should like to offer the following understanding: What seems to give the borderline personality (and borderline state) its uniqueness in differentiating itself from psychoses on one hand and neuroses on the other is not so much its midplace on the spectrum but is instead a qualitative difference.

If all the senses are milieux, or midplaces where inside and outside meet and meld, then the skin is the global integral of these local area networks, the milieu of these milieux: […]

Firms were searching for a midplace to park production.

2012, Amy K. Glasmeier, The High-Tech Potential:

By the third night, when Scott finally managed to locate him and send in retrieval forces, Jared's spirit had set to wandering the mid-places, that spiritual line between life and death; he was certain of it.

2013, Deidre Knight, Parallel Attraction:

That's where the king and queen, the court and ceremony would have been happening at mid-court, mid-place of the grandstand.

2016, Arthur I. Miltz, Art of Advocacy Series:

the centre of a location or the midpoint between two locations


conspirophile

1993 September 25, Chris Burian, "crime with computers?", alt.conspiracy/alt.society.civil-liberty https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.society.civil-liberty/5eRRUmy2XRo/NtJ-n4bdZGIJ (crossposted on both groups).
Being a conspirophile, I do see a connection between recent BBS porn busts, encryption busts, and even "anarchy" text-file busts. I also see them connected with Waco, S-8, and suggestions that the National Guard be used for border patrol.

2014 January 24, Desiree Erasmus, "Brethren, let us conspire", Hillcrest Fever: Your 24/7 local connection, page 6.
The NWO has been adopted by religious and secular conspirophiles alike and goes something like this: The world is secretly controlled by a small corporate-affiliated elite that belong to secret societies such as the Illuminati, Bilderbergers, Bohemian Grove and so on.

(very rare) A person who subscribes to conspiracy theories.


midpelvic

(anatomy) Of or relating to the midpelvis; at the midpoint of the pelvis.


somniphobia

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Due to somniphobia, Jason has a compulsive habit of getting out of bed and changing his clothes at night.

People may worry throughout the day about not being able to sleep. This worry can cause difficulties with focus or concentration. Often, somniphobia arises from a fear of having nightmares or experiencing sleep paralysis.

2022, Cleveland Clinic, Somniphobia (Fear of Sleep):

(uncommon, psychology) Fear of falling asleep; fear of a disaster while sleeping.


midtone

(photography, art) A medium tone, one that is neither very dark nor very light.


vinophile

If no Franco-vinophile is likely to lose his allegiance to French wines after a visit to Piedmont, it should at least widen his horizons in one of the most attractive wine-producing areas in Europe.

1971 November 25, Country Life, volume 150, page 1468, column 3:

Apparently the entire family are keen – if amateur – vinophiles, and the carafe placed on our table was not only, we were assured, home bottled, but also home brewed.

1979, Morley Marvels: Memoirs, Notes, and Essays of the Famed Actor, Raconteur, Collector, Hotel Guest, and Man of Leisure, A. S. Barnes and Company, →ISBN, page 37:

The early dominance of the French in the Mississippi Valley meant that many experiments by small communities and by individuals of that vinophile race—clerical as well as lay—were certainly made with both native and imported grapes.

1989, Thomas Pinney, “7. The Spread of Commercial Winegrowing”, in A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition, University of California Press, →ISBN, “The Missouri Germans”, page 174:

My own favourites were a 1976 Wintricher Ohligsberg Riesling Auslese and a 1977 Bernkastler Badstube Kabinett, and by the time I had sampled plenty of these and compared them, for scientific purposes only naturally, with a dozen or so other wines, I found myself saying, in all seriousness, that I found another wine – I think it was the ’76 Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Auslese – rather ‘leafy’. I do appreciate that ‘leafy’ is not a part of the vinophile’s largely inaccessible vocabulary, but I knew what I meant when I said it.

2008, Sheila Ravenscroft, “Wine-tasting with Walters”, in The Olivetti Chronicles: Three Decades of Life and Music: John Peel, Corgi Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 459:

Morgan didn’t drink, but Morgana owned an extensive wine cellar and knew all the right terms of a vinophile.

2009, Debra Salonen, “Chapter Two”, in Picture-Perfect Mom, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 33:

Jacoby, however, thoroughly enjoyed the vinophile’s ritual, eagerly volunteering to sample the current offering, sniffing the cork, swirling the precious vintage, inserting his ample nose in the goblet, and finally sipping the nectar, eyes closed in a mock-erotic reverie.

2010, Jim Nelson, “3. The Banquet”, in The Red Island, iUniverse, →ISBN, pages 9–10:

Owner is Joan Murillo, an unashamed vinophile who has decent wines from 2€ a glass to more finessed wines for around 4€.

2011, Frank Camorra, Richard Cornish, “Day Trips from Barcelona”, in Movida’s Guide to Barcelona, The Miegunyah Press, →ISBN, page 266, column 2:


upcanyon

en-adj

upcanyon (comparative more upcanyon, superlative most upcanyon)

more upcanyon (comparative)
most upcanyon (superlative)

My house is upcanyon from hers.


bicytopenia

en-noun

bicytopenia (countable and uncountable, plural bicytopenias)

(medicine) A deficiency in two of the three cell lines in the blood, namely erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets.


biclops

Then again, maybe a cyclops should be easier to blind than a biclops because you only need get one eye.

1999 October 31, Michael Barnes, “Re: cyclops”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet), message-ID <e97cbf5949%litening@litening.dircon.co.uk>:

>> The triclops *claimed* that she was a prisoner that stayed behind when
> So, am I a biclops?
You tell us. You may have 3 eyes for all we know.

2002 February 2, Gareth Kitchener, “Re: [322] What A Way To End It. What A Frelling Way To End It!”, in uk.media.tv.sf.farscape (Usenet), message-ID <v7uo5u4p8a991taah6kqm255kbsqtoudlu@4ax.com>:

Morris (Leela's father, a cyclops): Hey, it's what's-his-name from the surface. The biclops.


upmodulation

upmodulation (countable and uncountable, plural upmodulations)


canophilist

Mary trusts John with the car but not the dog because she knows John is a careful driver but not a canophilist.

2015, Boudewijn de Bruin, Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis, page 3:

Synonym of cynophile (“a person who is fond of dogs”).


arenophilic

(botany) That grows in sand (or very sandy soil).


biphenotypy

The expression, by the same cell, of markers of more than one cell type


bispheric

(optics, of a lens) Having a different radius of curvature at the centre and the edges