Definition of "intermediate" []

• Lying or occurring between two extremes or in a middle position or state: an aircraft having an intermediate range; an intermediate school. (adjective)
• One that is in a middle position or state. (noun)
• An intermediary. (noun)
• Chemistry A substance formed as a necessary stage in the manufacture of a desired end product. (noun)
• An automobile that is smaller than a full-sized model but larger than a compact. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Schumacher's emphasis on what he called "intermediate technology" neither basic nor large-scale as the solution to many of the world's problems led to the creation of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, now Practical Action, which recently hosted a celebration of his life."
• "Robert Stovall, managing director of Wood Asset Management, tells Wallace Forbes about ways to invest in what he calls the intermediate term, cyclical bull market that we're in."
• "If there were only one term intermediate between E and F (viz. that the circle is made equal to a rectilinear figure by the help of lunules), we should be near to knowledge."