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Mediate :: Mediate (a.) Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.

Continuous :: Continuous (a.) Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity..

Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light..

Interluency :: Interluency (n.) A flowing between; intervening water.

Internodal :: Internodal (a.) Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.

Amphiarthrosis :: Amphiarthrosis (n.) A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion; symphysis.

Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..

Osmose :: Osmose (n.) The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion..

Chemosmosis :: Chemosmosis (n.) Chemical action taking place through an intervening membrane.

Diastem :: Diastem (n.) Intervening space; interval.

Interchapter :: Interchapter (n.) An intervening or inserted chapter.

Intercurrent :: Intercurrent (n.) Something intervening.

Meanwhile :: Meanwhile (n.) The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time)..

Interfluous :: Interfluous (a.) Flowing between or among; intervening.

Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.

Interclude :: Interclude (v. t.) To shut off or out from a place or course, by something intervening; to intercept; to cut off; to interrupt..

Interambulacrum :: Interambulacrum (n.) In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum..

Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..

Intermission :: Intermission (n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes..

Parterre :: Parterre (n.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on..

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