middle distance

1. 1.

   the part of a scene between the foreground and the background

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Questions about middle distance

What does middle distance mean?

middle distance means "the part of a scene between the foreground and the background".

Is middle distance a common word?

middle distance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.