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| INTELLECTUAL | | —adj. - of or appealing to the intellect.
- possessing a highly developed intellect.
- requiring the intellect. —n. Intellectual person. intellectuality n. Intellectualize v. (also -ise) (-zing or -sing). Intellectually adv. | |
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| INTELLIGENCE | | n. - a intellect; understanding. B quickness of understanding.
- a the collecting of information, esp. Of military or political value. B information so collected. C people employed in this.
- quotient n. Number denoting the ratio of a person's intelligence to the average. | |
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| INTELLIGIBLE | | adj. Able to be understood. intelligibility n. Intelligibly adv. | |
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| INTERCESSION | | n. Interceding. intercessor n. [latin: related to *intercede] | |
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| INTERCONNECT | | v. Connect with each other. interconnection n. | |
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| INTERFERENCE | | n. - act of interfering.
- fading or disturbance of received radio signals.
- physics combination of two or more wave motions to form a resultant wave in which the displacement is reinforced or cancelled. | |
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| INTERJECTION | | n. Exclamation, esp. As a part of speech (e.g. Ah!, dear me!). | |
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| INTERLOCUTOR | | n. Formal person who takes part in a conversation. [latin loquor speak] | |
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| INTERMEDIARY | | —n. (pl. -ies) intermediate person or thing, esp. A mediator. —adj. Acting as mediator; intermediate. | |
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| INTERMEDIATE | | —adj. Coming between two things in time, place, order, character, etc. —n. - intermediate thing.
- chemical compound formed by one reaction and then used in another. [latin intermedius] | |
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