midpoint
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- Formula
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- Geometric properties involving midpoints
- Circle
- Ellipse
- Hyperbola
- Triangle
- Quadrilateral
- General polygons
- Generalizations
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282px|thumb|The midpoint of the segment (1, 1) to (2, 2)
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “midpoint” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.