interceptとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Verb

• (Received 発音) enPR: ĭntəsĕpt', IPA^(key): /ɪntəˈsɛpt/
• (米国発音) enPR: ĭntərsĕpt', IPA^(key): /ɪntɚˈsɛpt/

Noun

• (Received 発音) enPR: ĭn'təsĕpt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəsɛpt/
• (米国発音) enPR: ĭn'tərsĕpt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɚsɛpt/
• 韻: -ɛpt

動詞

intercept (三人称単数 現在形 intercepts, 現在分詞 intercepting, 過去形および過去分詞形 intercepted)

1. (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress または motion).

   The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 67:

     [T]he emotion grew ſo violent that it almost intercepted my reſpiration.

   • 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC, page 129:

     The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.

2. (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game
   1. (transitive, 米国用法 football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To take or comprehend between.
4. An aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.

名詞

intercept (複数形 intercepts)

1. An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
3. An interception of a missile.
4. (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.

   the y intercept ― point at which a line crosses the y-axis

   • 2012, Alice Kaseberg; Greg Cripe; Peter Wildman, Introductory Algebra: Everyday Explorations, page 278:

     Because the horizontal-axis intercept occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axis intercept occurs when x=0, we can find the intercepts algebraically.

5. (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.

派生語

参考

• (an interception of a radio broadcast または a telephone call): bug