From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishintermediatein‧ter‧me‧di‧ate1 /ˌɪntəˈmiːdiət◂ $ -tər-/●くろまる●くろまる●くろまるAWL adjective1a)an intermediate class, course etc is at a level of knowledge or skill that is between the basic level and the advanced levela book aimed at students at the intermediate level and aboveb)intermediate students, sportsplayers etc have reached a level of knowledge or skill that is between the basic level and the advanced levelintermediate learners of English2BETWEENan intermediate stage in a process of development is between two other stagesan intermediate stage during which the disease is dormantExamples from the Corpusintermediate• My few days were intermediate - cloudy, rough, with the reef and turbid water yet to fully recover.• But it does show that intermediatedesigns are capable of working.• One intermediateestimate put the cost at 3,500ドル.• Does evolutionsometimes have to pass through intermediateforms of lowfitness?• Thus the larger is n, the lower the effectiveprice of intermediateinputs.• an intermediateJapanese class• For these reasons also, it is hard to fit in any checkpoints at intermediate levels in the hierarchy.• Noncallable bonds, intermediatematurities and munis offering some extrayield were among the most popular, Mr Rowley said.• This means that multiple encryption / decryption need not be done at every intermediate point.• In the appendix to this chapter we show a Lancaster-type formulation of differentiatedintermediateproducts, which leads to similarresults.• intermediateskiers• an intermediatestep in the problem-solving processintermediateintermediate2 noun [countable]a student, sports player etc who has reached a level of knowledge or skill that is between the basic level and the advanced levela ski resort suited to beginners and intermediatesOriginintermediate(1400-1500)Medieval Latinintermediatus, from Latinintermedius, from medius"middle"