intercept
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin interceptum, past participle of intercipiō.
Pronunciation- Verb
- Noun
intercept (intercepts, present participle intercepting; simple past and past participle intercepted)
- (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
- The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.
- 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC ↗, page 129 ↗:
- The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.
- (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
- (transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
- (transitive, math) To take or comprehend between.
- To perform an aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
- French: intercepter
- German: abfangen
- Portuguese: interceptar
- Russian: заде́рживать
- French: intercepter
- German: abfangen
- Portuguese: interceptar
- Russian: перехва́тывать
- Spanish: interceptar, interrumpir
intercept (plural intercepts)
- An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
An interception of a missile. - (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
- the y intercept ― point at which a line crosses the y-axis
- 2012, Alice Kaseberg, Greg Cripe, Peter Wildman, Introductory Algebra: Everyday Explorations, page 278 ↗:
- Because the horizontal-axis intercept occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axis intercept occurs when x=0, we can find the intercepts algebraically.
- (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.
- Italian: intercettazione
- Russian: перехва́т
- German: Achsenabschnitt, Schnittpunkt
- Russian: пересече́ние
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