Midi

Midi or MIDI may refer to:

Music

• MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), an industry-standard electronic communications protocol
  • Black MIDI a genre of music that uses MIDI protocol files
• Beijing Midi School of Music, a music school in Beijing, China, established in 1993
• Midi (Hi-Fi system), a type of integrated Hifi audio system
• Midi, Maxi & Efti, a Swedish musical group with African influences from the early 1990s
• Midi Music Awards
• Midi Music Festival
• Speed/Midijunkies, a song by Atari Teenage Riot

Entertainment

• Berliner (format) or "midi", a newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 470 mm × 315 mm (18 ¹⁄₂ in × 12 ³⁄₈ in)
• Midi-chlorians, mysterious organisms in the fictional Star Wars universe
• MIDI Maze, an early first person shooter video game for the Atari ST
• Midi Minuit Fantastique (1962–1971), a former French film magazine published by Eric Losfeld

People

• Domnall Midi (before 715–763), King of Mide and High King of Ireland
• Donnchad Midi (died 797), King of Mide from about 766, son of Domnall Midi
• General Midi (DJ), British breakbeats DJ, real name Paul Crossman
• Jin Midi (134 BC – 86 BC), Han Dynasty official of Xiongnu ethnicity

Places

France

• Aiguille du Midi, a rocky outcrop in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps
• Cherche-Midi prison, a former prison in Paris, France, now closed down
• Le Midi, a colloquial name for Southern France, consisting of the regions that border Spain, the Mediterranean Sea and Italy
  • Canal du Midi, a 240 km long canal in France
  • Midi-Pyrénées, the largest region of metropolitan France
  • Pic du Midi d'Ossau, a peak of the Pyrenees
  • Pic du Midi de Bigorre (or Pic du Midi), a mountain in the French Pyrenees famous for its astronomical observatory

Other

• Dents du Midi, a mountain range in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland
• Midi District, a location in Yemen

Transport

• Bedford Midi, a medium-sized panel van produced in the period 1986—94 by GM Vauxhall
• Brussels-South railway station (Bruxelles-Midi), a railway and metro station in the Belgian city
• Chemins de fer de Paris à Orléans et du Midi or PO-Midi, an early French railway company
• Chemins de fer du Midi or CF du Midi, an early French railway company
• Mitsubishi Fuso Aero Midi, a medium-duty bus built by Mitsubishi Fuso
• TER Midi-Pyrénées, the regional rail network serving Midi-Pyrénées région, France

Other uses

• La Dépêche du Midi, a daily newspaper published in Toulouse, southern France
• Midi skirt, a mid-calf length skirt (1970s)
• Les 12 coups de Midi, a French game show broadcast on TF1.

See also

• Mid-IR Interferometric instrument, the Very Large Telescope in Chile
• Midy's theorem, named after French mathematician E. Midy, in mathematics is a statement about the decimal expansion of fractions