intermediates
- 1Plural of intermediate.
The ski school groups its students into beginners, intermediates, and experts.
The reaction proceeds through several short-lived intermediates before reaching the final product.
Note
A plural that serves several quite different nouns, so the setting decides which one is meant. Chemists use it in two ways: for short-lived species passing through a reaction, and for bulk substances one company makes and sells to another as raw input. On the road it can mean mid-sized cars, between compacts and full-sized models, or lightly grooved tires for conditions neither fully dry nor fully wet.
intermediates is a form of intermediate
intermediate, noun: Something that occupies a position between two others. Full entry
- Forms
- intermediateintermediates plural
- Spelling
- intermediate → intermediates: add -s
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