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adjective

being, situated, or acting between two points, stages, things, persons, etc.: the intermediate steps in a procedure.

of or pertaining to an intermediate school.

Automotive. mid-size.

noun

a person who acts between others; intermediary; mediator.

something intermediate, as a form or class.

Chemistry. a derivative of the initial material formed before the desired product of a chemical process.

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Origin:
1615–25; < Medieval Latin intermediātus, equivalent to Latin intermedi(us) intermediary (inter- inter- + medius middle, in the middle) + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

in·ter·me·di·ate·ly, adverb

in·ter·me·di·ate·ness, noun

Example Sentences

Ganglioneuroblastoma is an intermediate tumor arising from nerve tissue.

The individual must be an outstanding teacher willing to commit to elementary and intermediate language instruction.

It imports raw materials and intermediate goods and exports final goods.

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Ganglioneuroblastoma is an intermediate tumor arising from nerve tissue.

The individual must be an outstanding teacher willing to commit to elementary and intermediate language instruction.

It imports raw materials and intermediate goods and exports final goods.

There is also speculation that bats could be intermediate hosts.

What turns intermediate disturbances into natural disasters is population density.

When grown near each other, the two species sometimes hybridize, producing intermediate forms.

But the fossils of such an intermediate have never been found, and perhaps they never will.

If you are an intermediate player anxious to improve, there are various ways to go about it.

So developing a financial system that can intermediate between savers and borrowers effectively and efficiently is crucial.

The scientists say that this posture reflects an intermediate stage in the evolution of limbs from fish fins.

The intermediate universe is answerable to the rules of natural conflict.

In low and intermediate desert, plant in fall for outstanding early spring show.

Includes guitar and keyboard lessons for casual to intermediate musicians.

Some hands provide interesting points at three levels, for beginners, intermediate players and experts.

Even on intermediate stops, stations are far from urban centres.

The other subspecies have various features intermediate between these two.

So if the plants rotate at some intermediate angle, the seedlings experience on average an intermediate amount of gravity.

Designed for an intermediate woodworker, the project takes about two days to build.

The fossil record suggests that whales evolved on land, and intermediate species have been identified.

Thompson said the mosquito was an intermediate host, required for transmission.

Rate totals are based on compact, intermediate and full-size rates pulled on six midweek days.

The twist is that some of the intermediate steps rather than always being steps up, or even sideways, were steps down.

These species appear to be evolutionarily intermediate between the pheromone-only fireflies and flash-only fireflies.

They often hybridize when growing near each other, producing plants with intermediate characteristics.

They added debugging abilities by watching the levels of some intermediate output molecules as the reaction proceeded.

Countries that import many intermediate goods for processing and re-export skew the percentages.

The size of the teeth is another indication of the intermediate evolutionary stage of the species.

Topics ranging from geology to space weather are covered at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.

And the study indicates they could have been part of an intermediate step from nonliving material to life.

So, consumers end up picking up the bill for any sales taxes paid by businesses at intermediate supply chain levels as well.

Some birds breeding in the southwestern mountains are intermediate between auduboni and darker-faced nigrifrons.

The scientists suggest that the intermediate system they saw may be what normally keeps the white oval storms from colliding.

Furthermore, the middle section of any route between them lacks interesting intermediate destinations with substantial population.

H2 is virtually always an intermediate step between generating electricity and making electricity.

The newly found distant galaxy supports this theory because it provides a reservoir of these so-called intermediate black holes.

It is all used up during an intermediate step of producing algae-oil.

And there's no intermediate evolutionary form in which the shoulder blades lie beneath ribs.

If you choose to conduct your own research, you will need to control for age, which is an active intermediate variable.

It is one of the longest ancient water tunnels without intermediate shafts.

It is an intermediate form known as an amorphous solid.

In low and intermediate desert, grow as a winter crop in full sun.

Making plastic is a multi-step process requiring the production and use of a stew of different intermediate chemicals.

He said the heavier intermediate oil was seeping from the.

The new discovery of an intermediate step between the two appears to be the missing link.

Both the smart phone and lunch box represent intermediate steps in my opinion.

Some players would use an intermediate bid, such as six clubs, to show one top honor.

Faiman's group studied the baseline power, intermediate baseline and spinning reserves.

As an intermediate step, however, a simpler suggestion is to take the job of choosing the auditors away from a company's bosses.

Step into a four player round at intermediate and you are faced with a sporting challenge as strong as any fully fledged game.

These deep causes yield an important intermediate cause that makes things worse:.

All the money is in processing food and the intermediate steps.

Sold fish quickly make their way through to the stalls of the intermediate wholesalers, where it is prepared for sale.

Danes who were born in smaller cities showed intermediate risk.

Depending on the direction of the external magnetic field there can also be intermediate stages.

The temptation is to move to another company that can offer an intermediate rung on the ladder.

Older and intermediate players will relish the unusual challenge.

The result is that lots of calculations can be performed in parallel, as long as their intermediate steps remain unexamined.

Yanoconodon allini, an intermediate between modern mammals and their distant ancestors.

And all the caves between the top and bottom have the intermediate ages you'd expect.

Now staff fit into one of three bands: entry, intermediate or specialist.

The power law implies that suppressing small and intermediate collapses only brings much bigger ones.

Intermediate and wet tires will still be available during inclement weather.

Okay that's fine, but that's only an intermediate endpoint.

So the authors did a bit more engineering and added some copies of the gene that divert a four-carbon intermediate into butanol.

In the near to intermediate term, there are powerful deflationary forces.

It won't happen because there is no actual plan with intermediate steps.

Fitzgerald gets around this problem by using an intermediate layer of silicon germanium.

The quantum state of one ion was teleported to a second ion using a third ion in the middle as an intermediate.

I'd guess that cetacean culture is intermediate between humans and chimpanzees.

It has emerged out of decades of intellectual labor and a long series of intermediate solutions that address a mammoth problem.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object), -at·ed, -at·ing.

to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.

Origin:
1600–10; < Medieval Latin intermediātus, past participle of intermediāre. See inter-, mediate

Related forms

in·ter·me·di·a·tor, noun

in·ter·me·di·a·to·ry

[in-ter-mee-dee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective

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Collins

World English Dictionary

intermediate

—*adj*
1.	occurring or situated between two points, extremes, places, etc; in between
2.	(of a class, course, etc) suitable for learners with some degree of skill or competence
3.	physics (of a neutron) having an energy between 100 and 100 000 electronvolts
4.	geology (of such igneous rocks as syenite) containing between 55 and 66 per cent silica

—n
5.	something intermediate
6.	a substance formed during one of the stages of a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

—vb
7.	(intr) to act as an intermediary or mediator

[C17: from Medieval Latin intermediāre to intervene, from Latin inter- + medius middle]

inter'mediacy

—n

inter'mediateness

—n

inter'mediately

—*adv*

intermedi'ation

—n

inter'mediator

—n

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Word Origin & History

intermediate

1623, from M.L. intermediatus "lying between," from L. intermedius "that which is between," from inter- "between" + medius "in the middle" (see medial). Intermediary (n.) "one who goes between others" is from 1791.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

intermediate in·ter·me·di·ate (ĭn'tər-mē'dē-ĭt)
adj.
Lying or occurring in a middle position or state. n.
A substance formed in the course of a chemical reaction or the synthesis of a desired end product that then participates in the the process until it is either deactivated or consumed.

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"We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibilty of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind."

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