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intercept
[ verb in-ter-sept; noun in-ter-sept ]
verb (used with object)
- to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination:
to intercept a messenger.
- to see or overhear (a message, transmission, etc., meant for another):
We intercepted the enemy's battle plan.
- to stop or check (passage, travel, etc.):
to intercept the traitor's escape.
- Sports. to take possession of (a ball or puck) during an attempted pass by an opposing team.
- to stop or interrupt the course, progress, or transmission of.
- to destroy or disperse (enemy aircraft or a missile or missiles) in the air on the way to a target.
- to stop the natural course of (light, water, etc.).
- Mathematics. to mark off or include, as between two points or lines.
- to intersect.
- Obsolete. to prevent or cut off the operation or effect of.
- Obsolete. to cut off from access, sight, etc.
noun
- an interception.
- Mathematics.
- an intercepted segment of a line.
- (in a coordinate system) the distance from the origin to the point at which a curve or line intersects an axis.
intercept
verb
- to stop, deflect, or seize on the way from one place to another; prevent from arriving or proceeding
- sport to seize or cut off (a pass) on its way from one opponent to another
- maths to cut off, mark off, or bound (some part of a line, curve, plane, or surface)
noun
- maths
- a point at which two figures intersect
- the distance from the origin to the point at which a line, curve, or surface cuts a coordinate axis
- an intercepted segment
- sport the act of intercepting an opponent's pass
intercept
- In a Cartesian coordinate system, the coordinate of a point at which a line, curve, or surface intersects a coordinate axis. If a curve intersects the x -axis at (4,0), then 4 is the curve's x -intercept; if the curve intersects the y -axis at (0,2), then 2 is its y -intercept.
Derived Forms
- ˌԳٱˈپ, adjective
- ˌԳٱˈپDz, noun
Other Word Forms
- t·t adjective
- ԴDzi·ٱ·iԲ adjective
- ԴDzi·ٱ·t adjective
- ܲi·ٱ·Ļ adjective
- ܲi·ٱ·iԲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of intercept1
Word History and Origins
Origin of intercept1
Example Sentences
In a post on social media, the Russian defence ministry said that 87 Ukrainian drones had been either destroyed or intercepted overnight over several Russian regions.
Detectives were also able to intercept a shipment of stolen bitcoin-mining computers that was set to be loaded onto a plane bound for Hong Kong.
Fish and Wildlife Service agents uncovered his crimes in 2023 when they intercepted three baby Mexican spider monkeys that had been smuggled across the border in Calexico by someone working for him, prosecutors said.
The two intercepts, which took off from Malbork Air Base in Poland, were part of the UK's contribution to Nato's enhanced air policing.
Video shows her confused and shaking in fear as she is intercepted by agents while headed to a Ramadan dinner celebration.
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