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  • noun Plural form of intermediate.

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Examples

  • Transitional forms are often referred to as intermediates or evolutionists to be an intermediate between fish and reptiles because it has fleshy fins, and thus one believes that the fins enabled it to evolve from shallow waters to life on land.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • These stationary buckets are called intermediates, and are counterparts of the moving buckets.

    Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers 1902

  • If the birds had been breeding, the scientists say that they would have found genetic "intermediates" - birds with genes from both species.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Well if being to hard on the intermediates is the Redbulls only problem you'd have to say on board hoses might be leagal under the current regulations, probably nothing in their about strictly non leathals.

    F1 Fanatic - The Formula 1 Blog Keith Collantine 2010

  • Well if being to hard on the intermediates is the Redbulls only problem you'd have to say on board hoses might be leagal under the current regulations, probably nothing in their about strictly non leathals.

    F1 Fanatic - The Formula 1 Blog Keith Collantine 2010

  • The expected downpour took longer to come, however, and Timo Glock showed the intermediates were the way to go initially, scything through the field.

    Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed 2009

  • - Now there are some who say that these so-called intermediates between the Forms and the perceptible things exist, not apart from the perceptible things, however, but in these; the impossible results of this view would take too long to enumerate, but it is enough to consider even such points as the following: - It is not reasonable that this should be so only in the case of these intermediates, but clearly the Forms also might be in the perceptible things; for both statements are parts of the same theory.

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • p-Aminophenol, p-Phenylenediamine These so-called intermediates react inside the hair fiber to produce the appropriate color when oxidized.

    What's Inside: 'Just for Men' Hair Color 2008

  • p-Aminophenol, p-Phenylenediamine These so-called intermediates react inside the hair fiber to produce the appropriate color when oxidized.

    What's Inside: 'Just for Men' Hair Color Patrick Di Justo 2008

  • You mean if we didn't find these "intermediates", the Theory of Evolution would be weakened?

    A Tetrahymena Puzzle 2008

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