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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intermediate \In`ter*me"di*ate\, a. [Pref. inter- + mediate: cf F. interm['e]diat.] 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. {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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intermediate \In`ter*me"di*ate\, v. i. To come between; to intervene; to interpose. --Milton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: intermediate adj 1: lying between two extremes in time or space or degree; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate level" [ant: {first}, {last}] 2: around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers" [syn: {average}, {medium}] 3: of the stage of education and schools between elementary and secondary including middle grades centering on 5 through 7; "intermediate schools"; "the intermediate (or middle) grades"; "a middle school" [syn: {intermediate(a)}, {middle}] [ant: {secondary(a)}, {elementary(a)}] n : a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained
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