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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'

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"Intermediate" Quotes from Famous Books

... that no "bean-stripe"—each bean, white or black, standing for a day—is wholly black, and that the more extended is our field of vision the more is the general aspect of the "bean-stripe" of a colour intermediate between the extremes of darkness and of light. Before the poem closes, Browning turns aside to consider the Positivist position. Why give our thanks and praise for all the good things of life to God, whose existence is an inference ...

— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden

... Heights Receiving Towers twenty minutes ahead of time, and there hung at ease till the Yokohama Intermediate Packet could pull out and give us our proper slip. It was curious to watch the action of the holding-down clips all along the frosty river front as the boats cleared or came to rest. A big Hamburger was leaving Pont Levis and her crew, unshipping the platform railings, began to sing "Elsinore"—the ...

— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling

... hunting and horse-racing—to which, indeed, might be added everything under the name of sport—as regarded the stronger. Sunday comforts were also enemies which he hated with a vigorous hatred, unless three full services a day, with sundry intermediate religious readings and exercitations of the spirit, may be called Sunday comforts. But not on this account should it be supposed that Mr Stumfold was a dreary, dark, sardonic man. Such was by no ...

— Miss Mackenzie • Anthony Trollope

... of the story is for the little boys and girls. But we must say a word also to the boys and girls of the junior and intermediate classes. It is this: That the branch of the apple tree, in bringing forth in its time the leaf-buds, the leaves, the blossoms, the green apples and the ripened fruit, has done nothing excepting that which God planned that it should do. He asks of it no more and ...

— Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear - Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks • B.J. Griswold

... diffusion of many genera, and even species, of arctic and north temperate plants in the southern hemisphere or on the summits of tropical mountains. Nearly fifty of the flowering plants of Tierra-del-Fuego are found also in North America or Europe, but in no intermediate country; while fifty-eight species are common to New Zealand and Northern Europe; thirty-eight to Australia, Northern Europe, and Asia; and no less than seventy-seven common to New Zealand, Australia, and South America.[180] On lofty mountains ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

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