intermediate stage

collocation in English

meaningsofintermediateandstage

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intermediate
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.təˈmiː.di.ət/
us
/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈmiː.di.ət/
being between two other related things, levels, ...
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stage
noun[C]
uk
/steɪdʒ/
us
/steɪdʒ/
a part of an activity or a period ...
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(Definition ofintermediateandstagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For the subsequentintermediatestage, the reverse ranking of these two constraints yielded the overgeneralization error pattern.
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Similarly, the prodromal phase is defined as anintermediatestageor prelude to the emergence of frank psychosis.
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The controversy that erupted during theintermediatestageover the combinatorial auction provides perspective from which to observe the rival approaches at work.
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The second theme is the critique of the assumption that nointermediatestagecan exist between fully modern syntactic language and its absence.
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Junctions formed at thisintermediatestagethat ultimately survive can only occur in increasingly smaller regions, thereby forming clusters with shorter segment lengths.
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The success of the parasite will also depend on its specificity within theintermediatestage, but data on copepod hosts are limited.
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We can use non-deterministic graphs either as anintermediatestageof transformation, or as the desired result, as in the case of function inversion.
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Our operational semantics aims at offering anintermediatestagethat facilitates the formal elaboration of computational approaches.
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Though convergence between the sympathetic candidate and serialism'sintermediatestageis usual with simple opaque interactions, it is not observed in situations of multiple opacity.
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The central figure shows anintermediatestagewhere two copies of the triangle are each labelled with zeros and ones.
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The concept that the curly wing phenotype represents a partial orintermediatestagetowards wild-type has its counterpart in many other studies of suppressor genes.
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Although this transition period applied only to females, we may discern some possibleintermediatestagefor males as well.
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There has been much speculation about the possibility of anintermediatestagethat may have involved, for example, adsorption on mineral surfaces.
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An interesting consequence is the predicted emergence of opacity effects as anintermediatestageof development.
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However, in anintermediatestage(at roughly two years of age) the child sometimes intends that the food land on the floor.
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Mere quantification of theintermediatestage, even at a phenomenological level, has not been attempted previously.
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Countries with differing degrees of inequality tend to diverge from each other if they are already at anintermediatestageof development.
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