What does "midcircle" mean?

A circle that is in the middle.

What is a synonym for "midcircle"?

Common synonyms include: circle of antisimilitude, circle of antisimilitude.

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Noun

1
A circle that is in the middle.
"Play begins when the teacher bounces a basketball on the floor in the center of the midcircle."
2
The middle of a circle.
"As the picturing of reality by the arts and sciences progresses, the innermost circle approaches the midcircle. But the midcircle, regardless of the extent of its expansion, will never coincide with the outer circle."
3
The middle of an act of circling.
"The upstart had stopped in midcircle and suddenly lunged at the veteran, and as he closed in, the veteran could smell both liquor and fear on his breath, which came in short, desperate gasps."
4
The great circle that is equidistant from two poles.
"But, though there is no perturbating motive force in the direction of the midcircle, there is nevertheleſs an accelerative one acting along it;[…]."
5
A reference generalised circle through which two given circles are inverses of each other.
"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."

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