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- To stop, deflect, or interrupt the progress or intended course of: intercepted me with a message as I was leaving.
- Sports.
- To gain possession of (an opponent's pass), as in football or basketball.
- To gain possession of a pass made by (an opponent), especially in football.
- Mathematics. To include or bound (a part of a space or curve) between two points or lines.
- Archaic. To prevent.
- Obsolete. To cut off from access or communication.
- Mathematics. The coordinate of a point at which a line, curve, or surface intersects a coordinate axis.
- The interception of a missile by another missile or an aircraft by another aircraft.
- Interception of a radio transmission.
- An interceptor.
[Middle English intercepten, from Latin intercipere, intercept- : inter-, inter- + capere, to seize.]
interceptive in'ter·cep'tive adj.







