intercepted, ppl. a.
(ɪntəˈsɛptɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Caught or stopped by the way, cut off, etc.: see the verb.
| 1623 Cockeram, Intercepted, taken by the way. 1665 Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xi. (1848) 235 A private Whisper, or the Intimation from..an intercepted Letter. 1700 Dryden Sigism. & Guisc. 118 A glimmering and malignant light..A twilight of an intercepted day. 1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 133 Still lagoons of intercepted flood water. |
b. spec. in Math. of part of a line or curve. (Cf. intercept n. 2.)
| 1702 Ralphson Math. Dict. App. Conic Sections 10 In a Parabola..the intercepted Axes ED, EO. 1706 Phillips, Intercepted Arcs or Intercepted Diameters, a Term in Conick Sections, the same as Abscissæ. 1837 Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 153 The intercepted portion of a circumference. |