intermediate
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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin intermediatus, past participle of intermediare, from inter + Late Latin mediare (“to mediate”); also Latin intermedius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
intermediate (comparative more intermediate, superlative most intermediate)
- Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intermediate
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: G. Fenton , →OCLC:
- which covered his belly to the navel and gave it the air of a flesh brush; and soon I felt it joining close to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both sides.
- 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:
- The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.
- 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
Derived terms
- dorsointermediate
- higher intermediate fare
- higher intermediate point
- intermediacy
- intermediate cuneiform bone
- intermediate egret
- intermediate filament
- intermediate frequency
- intermediate language
- intermediately
- intermediate nerve
- intermediateness
- intermediate phalange
- intermediate phalanx
- intermediate school
- intermediate scrutiny
- intermediate switch
- intermediate value theorem
- intermediate vector boson
- logamediate
- neurointermediate
- nonintermediate
- phosphointermediate
- photointermediate
- posterointermediate
- reactive intermediate
- unintermediate
- ventrointermediate
Translations
being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range
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Noun
intermediate (plural intermediates)
- Anything in an intermediate position.
- An intermediary.
- An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.
- Synonym: mid-size
- (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
- (chemical industries) Any such substance that is produced and sold to commercial customers (business-to-business sales) as an input to other chemical processes.
Translations
anything in an intermediate position
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an intermediary
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any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product
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Verb
intermediate (third-person singular simple present intermediates, present participle intermediating, simple past and past participle intermediated)
- (intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.
- (transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.
- Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
Derived terms
Translations
to mediate, to be an intermediate
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Spanish
Verb
intermediate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of intermediar combined with te