Mid Atlantic

Mid Atlantic can refer to:

  • The middle of the Atlantic Ocean
  • Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a tectonic plate boundary
  • Mid-Atlantic states, a region in the United States
  • Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference, an athletic league in the United States
  • Mid-Atlantic English, a mixture of American and British usage

Famous quotes containing the words mid and/or atlantic:

    At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly
    To the lone vale we loved when life was warm in thine eye,
    Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

    She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)