A metric used in NBA basketball that is similar to Field Goal Percentage, but adds an additional parameter.
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) politics. a. the middle of a term of office, esp of a presidential term, when congressional and local elections are held. b. (as modifier): midterm elections.
âMembers of the 112th Congress were elected in a 2010 midterm election shellacking of the Democratic Party. Republicans won back the House two years after voters handed control of the White House and both chambers of Congress to the Democrats. After the 2010 midterms, Obama said: People are frustrated.