Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Intermediate; intervening; intervenient.
  • noun A fissure in the parietal lobe of the brain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Lying between; intervening; intermediate.

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  • adjective Lying between; intervening; intermediate.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ medial: compare Latin intermedius.

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Examples

  • It exposes Gysin as a restless experimenter with a consistent vision, an inconsistent style, and an enduring commitment to several art forms, not least hybrid, intermedial practices such as visual poetry and performance art.

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

  • It exposes Gysin as a restless experimenter with a consistent vision, an inconsistent style, and an enduring commitment to several art forms, not least hybrid, intermedial practices such as visual poetry and performance art.

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

  • It exposes Gysin as a restless experimenter with a consistent vision, an inconsistent style, and an enduring commitment to several art forms, not least hybrid, intermedial practices such as visual poetry and performance art.

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

  • It exposes Gysin as a restless experimenter with a consistent vision, an inconsistent style, and an enduring commitment to several art forms, not least hybrid, intermedial practices such as visual poetry and performance art.

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

  • It exposes Gysin as a restless experimenter with a consistent vision, an inconsistent style, and an enduring commitment to several art forms, not least hybrid, intermedial practices such as visual poetry and performance art.

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

  • Similarly, her intermedial kin Ehrenberg helped pioneer what also became an important artistic approach to changing minds in the social sphere, by imbuing his art with ethnic address.

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Up Against the Walls 2010

  • "We had intermedial victories before, and we won our first medal when I was a kid in a small fishing village in Iceland, and I remember vividly, what a national celebration that was."

    Iceland eyes gold medal in handball 2008

  • She is the author of various publications concerning intermedial aspects of photography (theater, dance, film and arts) and the history of photography.

    Anja Hellhammer. Jewish Women's Archive 2006

  • Chrysalis or - id: applied specifically to the intermedial stage between larva and adult in butterflies: see pupa.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • The axons of the mitral cells on reaching the olfactory trigone separate into three bundles, the lateral olfactory stria, the medial olfactory stria and the less marked intermedial olfactory stria.

    IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918

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  • In contemporary visual-art practice, this refers to works that cross different media (for instance, that combine painting and video; installation and social action; intervention and performance, etc.).

    November 25, 2011