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What (who) is Intercept - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Intercept (disambiguation)
intercept
(intercepts, intercepting, intercepted)
If you intercept someone or something that is travelling from one place to another, you stop them before they get to their destination.
Gunmen intercepted him on his way to the airport...
VERB: V n
• interception (interceptions)
...the interception of a ship off the west coast of Scotland.
N-VAR
intercept
¦ verb ??nt?'s?pt
1. obstruct and prevent from continuing to a destination.
2. Mathematics mark or cut off (part of a space, line, or surface).
¦ noun '?nt?s?pt
1. an act of intercepting.
2. Mathematics the point at which a given line cuts a coordinate axis.
Derivatives
interception noun
interceptive adjective
Origin
ME: from L. intercept-, intercipere 'catch between'.
intercept
v. a.
1.
Stop on the way, seize on the passage.
2.
Interrupt, obstruct, cut off.
Wikipedia
Intercept
Intercept may refer to:
- X-intercept, the point where a line crosses the x-axis
- Y-intercept, the point where a line crosses the y-axis
- Interception, a play in various forms of football
- The Mona Intercept, a 1980 thriller novel by Donald Hamilton
- Operation Intercept, an anti-drug measure announced by President Nixon
- Telephone tapping, the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party
- Tax refund intercept
- Samsung Intercept (SPH-M910), an Android smartphone
- Visual Intercept, a Microsoft Windows-based software defect tracking system
- Intermodulation Intercept Point, a measure of an electrical device's linearity
- Intercept message, a telephone recording informing the caller that the call cannot be completed
- The Intercept, an online news publication edited by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill
Examples of use of Intercept
1. Install software to intercept their instant messages?
2. Police also regularly intercept drug shipments using surveillance and informers.
3. "Currently police and politicians sign off intercept warrants.
4. Obviously we must try to intercept the terrorists.
5. The Nimitz scrambled fighter jets to intercept the Russian warplanes.