midair

See also: mid-air

English

Alternative forms

• mid-air

Etymology

From mid- +‎ air.

Adjective

midair (not comparable)

1. In the act of flight; airborne.

Noun

midair (countable and uncountable, plural midairs)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being airborne.

   The leaping dog spun around in midair.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day‎^[1], Penguin, published 2012:

     The rooms seemed to run on for blocks, stuffed with automata human and animal assembled and in pieces, disappearing-cabinets, tables that would float in midair and other trick furniture, Davenport figures with dark-rimmed eyes in sinister faces, lengths of perfect black velvet and multicolored silk brocade a-riot with Oriental scenes […]

2. (countable, aeronautics) A collision between two or more aerospace vehicles in flight.

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• ramidi