midcentury
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- noun
- /ˈmɪdˌsɛnʧəri/
:
mediados de siglo
- The group has called for a 60-80 percent cut in U.S. emissions by midcentury.
Examples
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As the literature of this period reveals, railway travel continued to engage the imagination well after midcentury.
Academic text (2004) -
The average number of projects completed globally per year grew from virtually zero in 1900 to nearly 250 by midcentury.
Academic text (2003) -
By midcentury, the American mystery genre was generally being written in American English.
Fiction book (2001) -
The U.S. Coast Survey began mapping the Pacific coast by midcentury.
Academic text (1994) -
The increased intensity of Comanche raids around midcentury had several causes.
Academic text (1992) -
Forecasts of the number of people who will move by around midcentury in response to the effects of climate change vary from tens of millions to 250 million people.
Academic text (2012) -
The first briefly describes the beginning of mass immigration and the transatlantic immigrant shipping traffic at midcentury.
Academic text (1991) -
Portraitists who specialized in painting animals, as opposed to those who painted humans, developed a separate genre of pet portraiture midcentury.
Academic text (2015) -
At midcentury, Christendom was ostensibly divided between Catholics and Protestants.
Academic text (1999) -
The architecture of many buildings from the midcentury is known for its clean lines and modernist approach.
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Etymology
The word midcentury combines mid- meaning 'middle' and century meaning '100 years' to name the middle part of a century, especially the years about 1940 to 1960 in the 20th century. So, saying 'the midcentury' means that middle time itself.