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intercept

In geometry, point at which a line or curve cuts across a given axis. Also, the segment cut out of a transversal by the pair of lines it cuts across. If a set of parallel lines make equal intercepts on one transversal, it will make equal intercepts on any other.



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Also he knows whither they are bound, and how, by crossing through the jungle on foot, you may intercept them at their next stop.
Instructions and commands were shouted to and fro, with the result that those before her spread roughly into a great half circle to intercept her, and when she turned to the right, hoping to elude the net, she saw others coming from fields beyond, and to the left the same was true.
The Mexicans are continually on the alert, to intercept these marauders; but the Indians are apt to outwit them, and force them to make long and wild expeditions in pursuit of their stolen horses.
 
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