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intermediate

/ˌɪntɚˈmidiɪt/

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What does intermediate mean?

adjective

  1. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

noun

  1. Anything in an intermediate position.
  2. An intermediary.
More meanings (6)

noun

  1. An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.
  2. Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
  3. Any such substance that is produced and sold to commercial customers (business-to-business sales) as an input to other chemical processes.
  4. A kind of tyre with relatively light grooving, used for conditions between fully dry and fully wet.

verb

  1. To mediate, to be an intermediate.
  2. To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˌɪntɚˈmidiɪt/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˌɪnɚˈmidiɪt/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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The first, in the intermediate grade, told stories of the illness of her father to account for her not having her lessons.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
These intermediate conditions are of interest precisely because the development of existing activities into the foreseen and desired end depends upon them.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852
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I have met with striking instances of the rule in the case of varieties intermediate between well-marked varieties in the genus Balanus.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228
And a narrative it remains both in the speeches which the poet recites from time to time and in the intermediate passages?
PlatoThe RepublicTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1497
At that period no attempt had yet been made to prove that the blacks were an intermediate race between man and animals.
Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé BonplandPersonal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1Translated by Thomasina RossProject Gutenberg ebook #6322