Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lying or occurring between two extremes or in a middle position or state.
- noun One that is in a middle position or state.
- noun An intermediary.
- noun Chemistry A substance formed as a necessary stage in the manufacture of a desired end product.
- noun An automobile that is smaller than a full-sized model but larger than a compact.
- intransitive verb To act as an intermediary; mediate.
- intransitive verb To intervene.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To act intermediately; intervene; interpose.
- In musical notation, of sharps or flats, accidental; not in the signature.
- Situated between two extremes; coming between, in either position or degree; intervening; interposed: generally followed by between when the extremes are mentioned: as, an intermediate space; intermediate obstacles.
- noun In mathematics, a syzygetic function: thus, if U and V are quantics of the same order, and if
λ andμ are indeterminate constants,λ U +μ V is an intermediate of U and V. - noun An intermediary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To come between; to intervene; to interpose.
- adjective Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent
- adjective Of or pertaining to an intermediate school.
- adjective (Theol.) the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body.
- adjective (Math.) the terms of a progression or series between the first and the last (which are called the
extremes ); the means. - adjective (Arch.) Same as
Intertie . - noun A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.
- noun Something that is intermediate.
- noun (Chem.) A compound which is produced in the course of a chemical synthesis, which is not itself the final product, but is used in further reactions which produce the final product; also called
synthetic intermediate ,intermediate compound orintermediate product ; -- contrasted tostarting material andend product orfinal product . There may be many differentintermediates between thestarting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being between two
extremes , or in themiddle of arange . - noun Anything in an intermediate position.
- noun An
intermediary . - noun chemistry Any
substance formed as part of aseries ofchemical reactions that is not theend -product . - verb intransitive to
mediate , to be an intermediate - verb transitive to arrange, in the manner of a broker
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained
- adjective around the middle of a scale of evaluation
- verb act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
- adjective lying between two extremes in time or space or state
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Schumacher's emphasis on what he called "intermediate technology" neither basic nor large-scale as the solution to many of the world's problems led to the creation of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, now Practical Action, which recently hosted a celebration of his life.
Why haven't politicians heeded the wisdom of EF Schumacher? | Jonathan Glennie 2011
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Schumacher's emphasis on what he called "intermediate technology" neither basic nor large-scale as the solution to many of the world's problems led to the creation of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, now Practical Action, which recently hosted a celebration of his life.
Why haven't politicians heeded the wisdom of EF Schumacher? | Jonathan Glennie 2011
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Robert Stovall, managing director of Wood Asset Management, tells Wallace Forbes about ways to invest in what he calls the intermediate term, cyclical bull market that we're in.
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If there were only one term intermediate between E and F (viz. that the circle is made equal to a rectilinear figure by the help of lunules), we should be near to knowledge.
PRIOR ANALYTICS Aristotle 1989
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Huxley made the most careful distinction between what he called intermediate types and types with a right to be placed in linear order,
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Huxley made the most careful distinction between what he called intermediate types and types with a right to be placed in linear order,
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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But there is another question in your last letter -- one about which a person can only give an impression -- and my impression is that, speaking of plants of a well-known flora, what we call intermediate varieties are generally less numerous in individuals than the two states which they connect.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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He has written two popular college-level textbooks: one in intermediate macroeconomics and the more famous Principles of Economics.
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This is why you see so much castle-medieval-fantasy in intermediate short stories, the conventions are part of the culture so we don't need a lot of explanation to grasp the story.
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This is why you see so much castle-medieval-fantasy in intermediate short stories, the conventions are part of the culture so we don't need a lot of explanation to grasp the story.
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