Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being intermediate, or of acting intermediately; intermediate agency; interposition; intervention.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Interposition; intervention.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of being
intermediate - noun countable
intervention
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Examples
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Obviously we all understand that the whole period of growing up is one long exercise in intermediacy.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Obviously we all understand that the whole period of growing up is one long exercise in intermediacy.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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In the intermediacy, the brain begins to hallucinate, to supply the visual and experiential cues of the dream-state without unconsciousness.
columba-kos Diary Entry columba-kos 2008
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The intermediacy of the archaeocete whales of Wadi Al-Hitan is corroborated by skeletal features like the retention of well-formed hind limbs, feet, and toes in Basilosaurus and in Dorudon.
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It is only a short step from this to agreeing that no intermediacy, of names or anything else, between the would-be knower and the object known can do anything but impede the learning process.
Plato's Cratylus Sedley, David 2006
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Great diversity occurs in this lower area representing degrees of intermediacy between the redband and the coastal rainbow trout.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Great diversity occurs in this lower area representing degrees of intermediacy between the redband and the coastal rainbow trout.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Great diversity occurs in this lower area representing degrees of intermediacy between the redband and the coastal rainbow trout.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Great diversity occurs in this lower area representing degrees of intermediacy between the redband and the coastal rainbow trout.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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In other words, Lord Worth, through the invaluable intermediacy of Commander Larsen, picked his men with extreme care.
Seawitch MacLean, Alistair 1977
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