intermediate

Meanings

Adjective

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

Noun

• Anything in an intermediate position.
• An intermediary.
• Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

Verb

• To mediate, to be an intermediate.
• To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

Origin

• From Medieval Latin intermediatus, past participle of intermediare, from inter + Late Latin mediare ("to mediate"); also Latin intermedius