0 present participle of intercept
1 to stop and catch something or someone before that thing or person is able to reach a particular place:
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.
Intercepting such signals at interstellar distances would undoubtedly be more difficult than detecting a signal directed at us.
Liu et al.25 proposed a method for dynamically intercepting and manipulating the object for industrial robots in a work cell.
For intercepting a moving object one needs information about its speed to regulate the timing of one's action, and information about its (egocentric) position to direct one's action.
Therefore, this interception is analogous to intercepting flying insects with aerial traps because the underground tunnels are conveyors of pheromones that elicit recruitment of termites to monitoring stations with wood.
That is, given two identical objects at different depths intercepting a true horizon, the ratio of the proportion above to that below is the same (invariant) for both.
Besides intercepting something, the new tasks expected from users seem to be based on their capability of sharing and forming something which no longer seems to be given: the meaning.