Intermediate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lying or occurring between two extremes or in a middle position or state: an aircraft having an intermediate range; an intermediate school.
  • n. One that is in a middle position or state.
  • n. An intermediary.
  • n. Chemistry A substance formed as a necessary stage in the manufacture of a desired end product.
  • n. An automobile that is smaller than a full-sized model but larger than a compact.
  • verb-intransitive. To act as an intermediary; mediate.
  • verb-intransitive. To intervene.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
  • n. Anything in an intermediate position.
  • n. An intermediary.
  • n. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
  • v. to mediate, to be an intermediate
  • v. to arrange, in the manner of a broker
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent
  • adj. Of or pertaining to an intermediate school.
  • verb-intransitive. To come between; to intervene; to interpose.
  • n. A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.
  • n. Something that is intermediate.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To act intermediately; intervene; interpose.
  • 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. An intermediary.
  • In musical notation, of sharps or flats, accidental; not in the signature.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained
  • adj. around the middle of a scale of evaluation
  • v. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
  • adj. lying between two extremes in time or space or state
  • Equivalent
    moderate    antepenultimate    in-between    gray    middle    penultimate    next-to-last    junior    mediate    subterminal   
    Antonym
    immediate   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    intervening    interposed    interjacent    intervene    interpose    intermediary    mediator    mediate    medial    median   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    various    secondary    multiple    successive    upper    neutral