intermediate
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Adjective (2)
- lying between two extremes in time or space or state“going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands”“intermediate stages in a process”“intermediate stops on the route”“an intermediate range plane”Opposite endmostSimilar in-between, junior, halfway, subterminal, penultimate, sophomore, antepenultimate, grey
- around the middle of a scale of evaluation“an orange of average size”“intermediate capacity”“medium bombers”Synonyms: averagemediumOpposite immoderateSimilar moderate
Noun (1)
- a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtainedType of chemical, chemical substance
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Translations
Adjective in the middle, between two levels
- Spanish
- intermedio
- French
- intermédiaire
- German
- mittlere
- Italian
- intermedio
- Portuguese
- intermediário
- Turkish
- ara
- Russian
- промежу́точный promežútočnyj
- Arabic
- مُتَوَسِّط mutawassiṭ
- Chinese
- 中级 zhōngjí
- Dutch
- middelmatig
12 more languages
- Swedish
- mellanliggande
- Greek
- ενδιάμεσος endiámesos
- Vietnamese
- trung cấp
- Hungarian
- középfokú
- Portuguese (PT)
- intermediário
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 中級 zhōngjí
- Catalan
- intermedi
- Finnish
- väli-
- Georgian
- შუალედური šualeduri
- Romanian
- intermediar
- Scottish Gaelic
- eadar-mheadhanach
- Welsh
- canolradd
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Pref. inter- + mediate: cf. F. intermédiat.
1. 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.
2. Hence: Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.
Intermediate state Theology, the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body. — Intermediate terms Mathematics, the terms of a progression or series between the first and the last (which are called the extremes); the means. — Intermediate tie. Architecture Same as Intertie.
To come between; to intervene; to interpose. John Milton
1. A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.
2. Something that is intermediate.
3. Specifically: Chemistry 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; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses. The term has the same meaning with respect to intermediate compounds produced in a biosynthetic pathway in living organisms.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors