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say it: in-tur-MEE-dee-it
intermediate is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "lying between two extremes in time or space or state". It is pronounced /ˌɪntɚˈmidiɪt/ — in-tur-MEE-dee-it. It carries 4 recorded senses.
lying between two extremes in time or space or state
“going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands”
“intermediate stages in a process”
“intermediate stops on the route”
“an intermediate range plane”
a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for intermediate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.