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Rendezvous vs Midpoint - What's the difference?

rendezvous | midpoint |

As nouns the difference between rendezvous and midpoint

is that rendezvous is rendezvous while midpoint is a point equidistant between two extremes.

rendezvous

English

Noun

  • A meeting or date.
    • I have a rendezvous with a friend in three weeks.
  • An agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet.
    • “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”
  • A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
  • (label) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  • * Clarendon
    • The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
  • (obsolete) retreat; refuge
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (military) RV (abbreviation)

    Usage notes

    The plural rendezvous'' (/-vu/) is normally ''rendezvous'' (/-vuz/). Rarely, the form ''rendezvouses is encountered.

    Verb

  • To meet at an agreed time and place.
    • Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.

    See also

    * rendez-vous for French definition, spelling, and pronunciation English borrowed terms English terms derived from French ----

    midpoint

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mid-point

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A point equidistant between two extremes.
  • (mathematics) A point which divides a line segment into two lines of equal length.

    • Derived terms

    * midpoint ellipse * midpoint load * midpoint method * midpoint polygon * gyromidpoint