Intervening

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intervene \In`ter*vene"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Intervened}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Intervening}.] [L. intervenire, interventum, to
     intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to
     E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See {Come}.]
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     1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; --


        followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes
        between Europe and Africa.
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     2. To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or
        events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and
        the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the
        intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
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     3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
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     4. In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put
        forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
        --Abbott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intervening
       adj 1: occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so
              much had happened during the intervening years"
       2: standing between or separating two objects or areas;
          "Paris--where the same city lies on both sides of an
          intervening river"; "after reaching the top of the hill he
          looked across an intervening meadow to another line of
          hills"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "intervening":
     arbitrational, arbitrative, coming between, going between,
     intercessional, intercessory, intercurrent, interjacent,
     interlocutory, intermedial, intermediary, intermediate,
     intermediatory, intervenient, interventional, mean, medial, median,
     mediating, mediative, mediatorial, mediatory, medium, mesne,
     middle, pacificatory