Intermediate

Pronunciation

• UK
• (adjective, noun) IPA: /ɪntÉ™(ɹ)ˈmɪidɪiÉ™t/
• (verb) IPA: /ɪntÉ™(ɹ)ˈmɪidˌɪieɪt/
• US
• (adjective, noun) enPR: Ä­n-tÉ™r-mÄ“'dÄ“-É™t; IPA: /ˌɪntɚˈmɪidɪiÉ™t/
• (verb) IPA: /ˌɪntɚˈmɪidɪieɪt/;

Origin

From Medieval Latin intermediatus, past participle of intermediare, from inter + Late Latin mediare ("to mediate"); also Latin intermedius

Full definition of intermediate

Adjective

1. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
• 2013-08-03, The machine of a new soul, The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.

Synonyms

Noun

1. Anything in an intermediate position.
2. An intermediary.
3. (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

Verb

1. (intransitive) to mediate, to be an intermediate
2. (transitive) to arrange, in the manner of a brokerCentral banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

Derived terms

• intermediation