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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intervene \In'ter*vene"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Intervened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Intervening}.] [L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See {Come}.]
1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
2. To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
4. In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. --Abbott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intervening
adjective
1: occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so much had happened during the intervening years"
2: standing between or separating two objects or areas; "Paris--where the same city lies on both sides of an intervening river"; "after reaching the top of the hill he looked across an intervening meadow to another line of hills"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "intervening": arbitrational, arbitrative, coming between, going between, intercessional, intercessory, intercurrent, interjacent, interlocutory, intermedial, intermediary, intermediate, intermediatory, intervenient, interventional, mean, medial, median, mediating, mediative, mediatorial, mediatory, medium, mesne, middle, pacificatory
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