Mid-Atlantic

== English == === Etymology === From mid- +‎ Atlantic. === Proper noun === Mid-Atlantic The middle of the East Coast of the United States, typically consisting of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. The middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Used alone, with "the". Used alone, after a verb or preposition of location, without "the". 1875, Ralph Abercromby, letter to the editor, in Sir Norman Lockyer (editor), Nature, Volume 12, Number 311 (14 October 1875), Macmillan and Co., page 514: Cyclones coming from Labrador work round this hump to the S.E., and die out in mid-Atlantic. Used as an attributive modifier in compounds such as "mid-Atlantic current" and "Mid-Atlantic Ridge": located in, or otherwise relating to, the mid-Atlantic. See: Mid Atlantic Ridge 1910, W. H. Holmes, “Some Problems of the American Race”, in American Anthropologist, Volume 12, Number 2 (April–June 1910), the American Anthropological Association, page 173: As they appear today these approaches are first, the north Atlantic chain of islands connecting northern Europe with Labrador; second, the mid-Atlantic currents setting steadily westward from the African coast to South America and the West Indies; third, […] (figuratively) Used as an attributive modifier in compounds such as "mid-Atlantic accent" and "mid-Atlantic English": half-American, half-European; combining American and European elements. === Adjective === Mid-Atlantic (not comparable) Of or relating to this region.