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/ˌɪntərsˈɛpʃən/ /ˌɪnərsˈɛpʃən/ Listen

Interception

noun

The act of intercepting; preventing something from proceeding or arriving. "He claimed that the interception of one missile by another would be impossible"

(American football) the act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team.

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"Interception" Quotes from Famous Books

... pigment-cells, more sensitive to light than the surrounding tissue. The eye is incipient. At first it is merely capable of revealing differences of light and shade produced by bodies close at hand. Followed, as the interception of the light commonly is, by the contact of the closely adjacent opaque body, sight in this condition becomes a kind of 'anticipatory touch.' The adjustment continues; a slight bulging out of the epidermis over the pigment-granules supervenes. A lens ...

— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall

... life which he leaves, since he cannot judge what others years may produce, why should he be afraid of leaving life betimes? Why should he dread an early death, of which he cannot tell whether it is an exclusion of happiness, or an interception of calamity. I despise the superstition of augury and omens, which has no ground in reason or piety; my comfort is, that I cannot fall but by the direction ...

— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

... arrest was made by the acting Governor of Mississippi, and at some point in that Territory, where Jackson had a store or trading establishment. He was, with three of his aides, on his way to meet Wilkinson, for the purpose of arranging matters. He escaped, and finding things prepared for his interception, he made his way across the country; but was finally arrested, on the Tombigbee, by an officer of the United States army. When on his trial at Richmond, Jackson went there, and was found on the street haranguing the people in Burr's ...

— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks