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Abbreviation

An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv., or abbrev.; NPO, for nil (or nothing) per (by) os (mouth) is an abbreviated medical instruction.

Intermediate

Coming between two things in time, place, character, etc.
A cooled liquid intermediate between liquid and solid
An intermediate stage of development

Abbreviation

The act or product of shortening.

Intermediate

An intermediate thing.

Abbreviation

A shortened form of a word or phrase used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form, such as Mass. for Massachusetts or USMC for United States Marine Corps.
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Intermediate

Act as intermediary; mediate
Groups which intermediated between the individual and the state

Abbreviation

The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.

Intermediate

Lying or occurring between two extremes or in a middle position or state
An aircraft having an intermediate range.
An intermediate school.

Abbreviation

(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
Hants is an abbreviation of Hampshire.

Intermediate

One that is in a middle position or state.
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Abbreviation

The process of abbreviating.

Intermediate

An intermediary.

Abbreviation

(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.

Intermediate

(Chemistry) A substance formed as a necessary stage in the manufacture of a desired end product.

Abbreviation

(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.

Intermediate

An automobile that is smaller than a full-sized model but larger than a compact.

Abbreviation

Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.

Intermediate

To act as an intermediary; mediate.

Abbreviation

(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.

Intermediate

To intervene.

Abbreviation

(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Intermediate

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

Abbreviation

The act of shortening, or reducing.

Intermediate

Anything in an intermediate position.

Abbreviation

The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

Intermediate

An intermediary.

Abbreviation

The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

Intermediate

(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

Abbreviation

One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.

Intermediate

(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.

Abbreviation

A shortened form of a word or phrase

Intermediate

(transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.
Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.

Abbreviation

Shortening something by omitting parts of it

Intermediate

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.

Intermediate

Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.

Intermediate

To come between; to intervene; to interpose.

Intermediate

A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.

Intermediate

Something that is intermediate.

Intermediate

A compound which is produced in the course of a chemical synthesis, which is not itself the final product, but is used in further reactions which produce the final product; also called synthetic intermediate, intermediate compound or intermediate product; - contrasted to starting material and end product or final product. There may be many different intermediates between the starting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses.

Intermediate

A substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

Intermediate

Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
He interceded in the family dispute
He mediated a settlement

Intermediate

Lying between two extremes in time or space or degree;
Going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands
Intermediate stages in a process
Intermediate stops on the route
An intermediate level
The last time I saw Paris
The last day of the month
Had the last word
Waited until the last minute
He raised his voice in a last supreme call
The last game of the season
Down to his last nickel

Intermediate

Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;
An orange of average size
Intermediate capacity
A plane with intermediate range
Medium bombers

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