intermediate

Etymology

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

adj

1. Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
   The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s. 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98
   The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. 2013-08-03, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847

noun

1. Anything in an intermediate position.
2. An intermediary.
3. An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.
4. (chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

verb

1. (intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.
2. (transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.
   Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.