Intermediate

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  • 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. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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 and μ are indeterminate constants, λU + μV is an intermediate of U and V.
  • noun. An intermediary.
  • 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. the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body.
  • adjective. the terms of a progression or series between the first and the last (which are called the extremes); the means.
  • adjective. Same as Intertie.
  • noun. A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.
  • noun. Something that is intermediate.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
  • noun. Anything in an intermediate position.
  • noun. An intermediary.
  • noun. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
  • verb. to mediate, to be an intermediate
  • verb. to arrange, in the manner of a broker
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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