Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word INTERCEPT

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Definitions of INTERCEPT

1. An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
2. An interception of a missile.
3. (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
4. (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
5. (transitive, math) To take or comprehend between.
6. To perform an aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
7. (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
8. (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.

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Examples of Using INTERCEPT in a Sentence

• The AIM-7 Sparrow (Air Intercept Missile) is an American medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and various other air forces and navies.
• The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries.
• In mathematics, Thales is the namesake of Thales's theorem, and the intercept theorem can also be known as Thales's theorem.
• The formal name of the statute is the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001, and the commonly used short name is a contrived acronym that is embedded in the name set forth in the statute.
• In 1990 he and his students founded TSR Technologies, a company that made software-defined cellular and paging intercept and drive test equipment that was sold to Allen Telecom in 1993, and in 1995 Wireless Valley Communications, a company that pioneered the creation of computer-aided wireless network prediction and management software that was sold to Motorola in late 2005.
• English warships (nine vessels from Alfred's new fleet) intercept six Viking longships in the mouth of an unknown estuary on the south coast (possibly at Poole Harbour) in Dorset.
• Breaking of a continuous curve into a series of straight line segments and specifying the slope, intercept, and range for each segment.
• They are an aspect of electronic warfare involving actions taken under direct control of an operational commander to detect, intercept, identify, locate, record, and/or analyze sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purposes of immediate threat recognition (such as warning that fire control radar has locked on a combat vehicle, ship, or aircraft) or longer-term operational planning.
• Intercept theorem, an important theorem in elementary geometry about the ratios of various line segments.
• Shields are used to intercept specific attacks, whether from close-ranged weaponry or projectiles such as arrows, by means of active blocks, as well as to provide passive protection by closing one or more lines of engagement during combat.
• Originally there were two motivations: either to resist enemy efforts to jam the communications (anti-jam, or AJ), or to hide the fact that communication was even taking place, sometimes called low probability of intercept (LPI).
• The third-order intercept point relates nonlinear products caused by the third-order nonlinear term to the linearly amplified signal, in contrast to the second-order intercept point that uses second-order terms.
• Grant attempted to move quickly through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him.
• Leo Phokas, who survived at Anchelous, gathers the last Byzantine troops to intercept the Bulgarians before they reach the capital.
• The AN/MPQ-53 at the heart of the system is known as the "Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target," which is a backronym for "Patriot".
• SS7 has been shown to have several security vulnerabilities, allowing location tracking of callers, interception of voice data, intercept two-factor authentication keys, and possibly the delivery of spyware to phones.
• The Radio Security Service evolved from the Illicit Wireless Intercept Organisation (IWIO), which was given the designation MI1g and run by Lt Col.
• Trying to intercept a Red Sticks party who were bringing back arms thought to be purchased from the Spanish in Florida, United States Army forces attacked the Creek at the Battle of Burnt Corn.
• The year 1969 marked the introduction of Operation Intercept, aimed at curbing narcotics flow between the U.
• Two McDonnell F-101 Voodoo fighters of the 75th Fighter Squadron were scrambled from Dow Air Force Base on the night of April 11, 1961, to intercept an unidentified aircraft approaching the United States.
• Army Air Corps Private at Fort Shafter’s Intercept Center near Pearl Harbor; instrumental in the initial report of Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service's impending attack on Pearl Harbor.
• In this scenario, the attacker must be able to intercept all relevant messages passing between the two victims and inject new ones.
• Norton was a manual morse intercept (MOS 2621), graduating from NCTC Corry Station, Pensacola, Florida.
• Several days of fruitless countermarching found the thoroughly alerted French concentrated and moving to intercept the Spanish army.
• If no digits are forthcoming, the partial dial procedure is invoked, often eliciting a special information tone and an intercept message, followed by the off-hook tone, requiring the caller to hang up and redial.

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