intercept

interception | American Dictionary

interception
noun[ C ]
us/ˌɪn·tərˈsep·ʃən/
(esp. in football) the act of catching a ball intended for someone on the opposing team:
He’s thrown 122 passes without an interception.

interception | Business English

interception
noun[ U or C ]
uk /ˌɪntəˈsepʃən/us
the act of stopping someone or something before they can get to a place:
The IT engineer was accused of the illegal interception of private emails.

Examples of interception

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Interception was reduced by 19% if only spatially independent collectors were used.
Finally, grazing animals or parasitic viruses or microorganisms can limit photon interception and use.
The overall floristics at flight interception trap sites between the two plantation types did not show much difference except in the ground cover.
Epiphytes also increase the surface area of phorophytes for interception of water and nutrients during precipitation events.
A t 5 m, the sensor was covered in a cylindrical tube to determine the degree of wetting caused by cloud interception alone.
This was probably an adaptation which increased light interception.
This result allows us to derive the following result on the interception time.
Such plant traits confer an advantage during the wet season as they enhance light interception in a light-limited environment.
Physical simulation of trees to study the effects of forest light environment, branch type and branch spacing on light interception and transmission.
Therefore, it is clear that the properties of velocity variation during this period decide whether the robot can succeed with the interception or not.
Pathways and vectors of introduction can often be guessed from the biology of the insect, supported by interception data from national phytosanitary services.
From the interception points of threshold and data sets, the threshold light intensities of the optomotor response were interpolated.
Intercropping with banana to improve fractional interception and radiation-use efficiency of immature rubber plantations.
The raw material and other data point to planned moves towards specific locations in the river valleys for the interception of migrating reindeer herds.
A light interception method for measuring row crop ground cover.
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