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   in·ter·cept

   verb

   • 1. obstruct (someone or something) so as to prevent them from continuing to a destination: "intelligence agencies intercepted a series of telephone calls"
   • ▪ (of a defensive player) catch a forward pass.
   • ▪ cut off or deflect (light or other electromagnetic radiation): "a second prism can be swung in to intercept the light beam"
   • ▪ (of a line or surface) mark or cut off (part of a space, line, or surface).

   noun

   • 1. an act or instance of intercepting something: "he read the file of radio intercepts"
   • ▪ the point at which a given line cuts a coordinate axis; the value of the coordinate at that point.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the senses ‘contain between limits’ and ‘halt (an effect’)): from Latin intercept- ‘caught between’, from the verb intercipere, from inter- ‘between’ + capere ‘take’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. interceptive adjective

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