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/ˌɪntərmˈidiɪt/ /ˌɪnərmˈidiɪt/ Listen

adjective

Intermediate adj.

1.

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.

2.

Hence: Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.

Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body.

Intermediate terms (Math.), the terms of a progression or series between the first and the last (which are called the extremes); the means.

Intermediate tie. (Arch.) Same as Intertie.

verb

Intermediate v. i. To come between; to intervene; to interpose.

noun

Intermediate n.

1.

A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.

2.

Something that is intermediate.

3.

Specifically: (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 or intermediate product; contrasted to starting material and end product or final product. There may be many different intermediates between the starting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses. Note: The term has the same meaning with respect to intermediate compounds produced in a biosynthetic pathway in living organisms.

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Etymology of 'Intermediate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intermediate" Quotes from Famous Books

... the most clearly audible elements of speech. As such they are the carriers of practically all significant differences in stress, pitch, and syllabification. The voiceless sounds are articulated noises that break up the stream of voice with fleeting moments of silence. Acoustically intermediate between the freely unvoiced and the voiced sounds are a number of other characteristic types of voicing, such as murmuring and whisper.[16] These and still other types of voice are relatively unimportant ...

— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir

... travel, to cover a lot of ground and see all they could, for it was likely that they would pass that way but once. Why, then, should one blame the automobilist—who really travels very leisurely in that he sees a lot of the countryside manners and customs off the beaten track—if he rushes over an intermediate stretch of country in order to arrive at one more to ...

— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

... brains would have broken in the attempt to follow its processes. One of those rare deductive reasoners whose audacity marches abreast their genius, he would have been willing to fight to the last gasp for a conclusion which he had laboriously reached by rigid deduction through a score of intermediate steps, from premises in themselves repugnant to the primal instincts both of reason and humanity. Always ready to meet anybody in argument, he detested all reasoners who attempted to show the fallacy of his argument by pointing out the dangerous results ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various

... the last Conclusion tacked on, is called a 'Sorites'; the original Set of Propositions is called its 'Premisses'; each of the intermediate Conclusions is called a 'Partial Conclusion' of the Sorites; the last Conclusion is called its 'Complete Conclusion,' or, more briefly, its 'Conclusion'; the Genus, of which all the Terms are Species, is called its 'Universe ...

— Symbolic Logic • Lewis Carroll

... wood filler made by the latter firm is especially adapted for this purpose and will give excellent results. The finish is then applied in one or more coats as required, oil and shellac finishes usually requiring more than one application and an intermediate rubbing down with fine sandpaper. Shellac and ordinary varnish are usually unsatisfactory from their tendency to wear unevenly. The Chicago Varnish Company of Chicago supplies a varnish under the name of "Supremis," which has proved by years of use under trying conditions, ...

— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 05, May 1895 - Two Florentine Pavements • Various

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