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Midi
//ˈmɪdi// adj, name, noun, slang
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Having a hemline at mid-calf length. not-comparable
"midi skirt"
Adjective
- 1 used of women's clothing having a hemline at mid-calf wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 Abbreviation of Musical Instrument Digital Interface. abbreviation, alt-of
"MIDI channel number 10 is reserved for percussion."
- 2 A cultural region referring to the south of France; approximately corresponding to the regions where Occitan is or was spoken.
"Some thousands of French Huguenots settled in the South between 1670 and the end of the seventeenth century; but these immigrants included many French of the Midi, so that the newcomers tended to intensify characteristics already developing in the native population under climatic influences."
Noun
- 1 A computerized music file in the MIDI format. informal
"When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist."
- 2 A coat, skirt, or boot having such a hemline.
"Vogue recommends mixing midis – ie wearing the midi-boot with the midi-skirt – which is one option (very Marni), as is the current silhouette on the high street."
- 3 a standard protocol for communication between electronic musical instruments and computers wordnet
- 4 Synonym of Berliner (“newspaper format”).
Etymology
Borrowed from French Midi (literally “south”).
See also for "midi"
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