# intermediate
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK)
** (adjective, noun): IPA: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (verb): IPA: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.diˌeɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US)
** (adjective, noun): enPR: ĭn-tər-mē'dē-ət, IPA: /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.ət/
** Audio (New Jersey):(file)
** (verb): IPA: /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.eɪt/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, perfect passive participle of intermediō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from intermedius (“intermediate”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix).

#### Adjective

intermediate (comparative more intermediate, superlative most intermediate)
* Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intermediate
** 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages 165–166:Then, being on his knees between my thighs, he drew up his ſhirt, and bared all his hairy thighs, and ſtiff ſtaring truncheon, red-topt, and rooted into a thicket of curls, which cover’d his belly to his navel, and gave it the air of a fleſh-bruſh: and ſoon I felt it joining cloſe to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both ſides.
** 1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 650-651:Such was the station provided for the infrequent services of 1852, when suburban traffic was unheard of, and Hornsey, Colney Hatch & Southgate, Barnet, and Potters Bar were the only intermediate stations on the 17¾ miles between London and Hatfield.
** 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.
** 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: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.

##### Derived terms

* dorsointermediate
* higher intermediate fare
* higher intermediate point
* intermediacy
* intermediate black hole
* intermediate cuneiform bone
* intermediate egret
* intermediate filament
* intermediate frequency
* intermediate language
* intermediately
* intermediate mass black hole
* intermediate nerve
* intermediateness
* intermediate phalange
* intermediate phalanx
* intermediate school
* intermediate scrutiny
* intermediate switch
* intermediate time
* intermediate value theorem
* intermediate vector boson
* logamediate
* neurointermediate
* nonintermediate
* phosphointermediate
* photointermediate
* posterointermediate
* reactive intermediate
* unintermediate
* ventrointermediate

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From a substantivization of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

#### Noun

intermediate (plural intermediates)
* Anything in an intermediate position.
** 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:In Oklahoma, an intermediate license holder may not carry more than one non-family member in the vehicle unless accompanied in the front seat by a licensed driver over 21 years of age.
* An intermediary.
* An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.
    Synonym: mid-size
* (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
** (chemical industries) Any such substance that is produced and sold to commercial customers (business-to-business sales) as an input to other chemical processes.
* (motor racing) A kind of tyre with relatively light grooving, used for conditions between fully dry and fully wet.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

#### Verb

intermediate (third-person singular simple present intermediates, present participle intermediating, simple past and past participle intermediated)
* (intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.
* (transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.
    Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

##### Derived terms

* intermediation
* intermediatory

##### Translations
## Spanish
### Verb

intermediate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of intermediar combined with te