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Everything about Midpoint
Point on a line segment which is equidistant from both endpoints
In geometry, the midpoint is the middle point of a line segment. It is equidistant from both endpoints, and it is the centroid both of the segment and of the endpoints. It bisects the segment. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MidpointA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Performing life cycle impact assessment with the midpoint and endpoint method ReCiPeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, Spring 2021The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: ReCiPe2016: a harmonised life cycle impact assessment method at midpoint and endpoint levelCited 4,431 times
- Go sideways: Concurrent linesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: BisectionA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A point equidistant between two extremes.
Noun A point which divides a line segment into two lines of equal length.
Noun Synonym of middle dot.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
ReCiPe2016: a harmonised life cycle impact assessment method at midpoint and endpoint level
Evidence-Based Survey Design: The Use of a Midpoint on the Likert Scale
Mantle discontinuity structure from midpoint stacks of converted P to S waves across the Yellowstone hotspot track
Bregma, lambda and the interaural midpoint in stereotaxic surgery with rats of different sex, strain and weight
The LCIA midpoint-damage framework of the UNEP/SETAC life cycle initiative
Introducing carrying capacity-based normalisation in LCA: framework and development of references at midpoint level
pH-Dependent charge equilibria between tyrosine-D and the S states in photosystem II. Estimation of relative midpoint redox potentials
The traveltime equation, tau-rho mapping and inversion of common midpoint data
🆕 Influential since 2022
Performing life cycle impact assessment with the midpoint and endpoint method ReCiPe
Environmental Impact Analysis of Portland Cement (CEM1) Using the Midpoint Method
The midpoint of cortical thinning between late childhood and early adulthood differs between individuals and brain regions: Evidence from longitudinal modelling in a 12-wave neuroimaging sample
A novel convolutional neural network with multiscale cascade midpoint residual for fault diagnosis of rolling bearings
On midpoint and trapezoid type inequalities for multiplicative integrals
📚 Books worth reading
Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, Spring 2021Kimberly Hales, Ph.D. Jason Olsen · 2021
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