interception

intercept | American Dictionary

intercept
verb[ T ]
us/ˌɪn·tərˈsept/
to stop or catch something or someone that is on the way from one place to another so that it does not reach the intended place:
to intercept a letter
The ball was intercepted by Grady.

intercept | Business English

intercept
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌɪntəˈsept/us
to stop things, people, etc. as they go to a particular place:
Police intercepted a boat carrying over a million packs of cigarettes into the country illegally.
to intercept calls/communications/emails

Examples of intercept

intercept
Efficiency was therefore conserved, to a degree, while canopies reduced the solar energy they intercepted.
Effect sizes can be estimated based on the estimated standard deviations of the trajectory intercepts.
The intercepts and regression coefficients of the best-fitting model were recorded.
Nearly twice as many pest insects are intercepted on bonsai trees as on timber.
Rain or snow can be intercepted by the vegetation and re-evaporated.
We found that the intercepts were highly correlated to annual rainfall.
Although no intercepts appear in any of these expressions, the analysis is invariant to reinterpreting the variables as deviations from target values.
The remaining light fog events were completely intercepted by the tree foliage before the water could reach the ground.
The radiation intercepted by green tissue at this time is severely reduced by the layer of flowers, which absorb and reflect radiation.
Canopies in other years were sufficiently large to have intercepted more than 0.8 of incident light during this phase.
The c anopies o f these clones were assessed i n ter ms of their leaf area index and the fraction of incident radiation intercepted.
Plots were shaded with nets intercepting 50 % of the incident photosynthetically active radiation.
All plant species intercepting or touching the tape previously set in the two diagonals were noted.
Of these, 673 were caught, and 70 returned, of which 10 (70 0.145) should have been intercepted leaving the ring.
Because of the nature of the probability distributions of calibrated dates, interpretations should be based on ranges and modes, not calibration-curve intercepts.
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