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/ˌɪntərsˈɛpʃən/ /ˌɪnərsˈɛpʃən/ Listen

Interception

noun

The act of intercepting; preventing something from proceeding or arriving. "He claimed that the interception of one missile by another would be impossible"

(American football) the act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team.

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"Interception" Quotes from Famous Books

... chaos of fire and counter-fire, human senses could only register a few impressions—the bruising jerks, the shudder of concussions, white streaks of rocket-trails, gushers of dirt from the surface, winking flashes of mid-air interception. ...

— Tulan • Carroll Mather Capps

... went right on uninterrupted by my sour thoughts. "The present course of the ship is interception of Mars. Unless the course can be changed, the ship might plunge ...

— Jack of No Trades • Charles Cottrell

... treachery to his country in the darkest hour of his country's peril, Mr. William B. Reed has not hesitated to hold him up to that very country which he sought to betray, and did well nigh betray, and would have betrayed, but for the timely interception of his treasonable correspondence with the British Commissioners, as one of the most glorious and incorruptible of the patriots who fought and suffered for the establishment of American Independence! The guilt of this will cling ...

— Nuts for Future Historians to Crack • Various

... his glories are still under veil, he calls up the breeze to chase away the usurping vapours of the night-season, and thus converts the air itself into the minister of its own purification: not surely in proof or elucidation of the light from heaven, but to prevent its interception." ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge