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intercurrent

intercurrent adjective: running between or among, in a physical sense; interlayered.

Adjective

intercurrent (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Running between or among, in a physical sense; interlayered.
    • Intercurrent Ethereal Substance1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the...
  2. Coming between, temporally; intervening in time.
    • [B]esides the intercurrent offices of life, his reception of Visits, answering of Letters, his constant Preaching and Catechising, he found leisure to write his Tract of Fundamentals, his Paraenesis, his Review of the Annotations […].1661, John Fell, The Life of The most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr H. Hammond
    • As fatigue increases, the perception of the intercurrent excitation is retarded; an odor is perceived as exciting before it is perceived as a differentiated sensation […].1913, Havelock Ellis, Love and Pain
  3. Simultaneous; occurring at the same time as, or during the period of, another condition.
    • In intercurrent pneumonia, or such as occurs in the course of another disease, the absence of the characteristic expectoration, according to M. Andral, is noticed.1848, Robley Dunglison, The practice of medicine: a treatise on special pathology and therapeutics
    • As a matter of fact, these drugs are often used […] to save the doctors the trouble of making a diagnosis, or finding out the cause of some intercurrent malady.1921, Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor, Allen & Unwin, page 97
  4. Not belonging to any particular season.

Noun

intercurrent (plural intercurrents)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Something intervening.

intercurrent meaning in Tamil and Urdu

intercurrent in Tamil

இடைப்பரவு, ஊடுநிலவு

intercurrent in Urdu

حائل, مداخل

Forms of intercurrent

pluralintercurrents

Origin of intercurrent

Borrowed from Latin intercurrens, equivalent to inter- + current.

Words formed from intercurrent

Questions about intercurrent

What does intercurrent mean?
Intercurrent means running between or among, in a physical sense; interlayered.
What is intercurrent in Tamil?
Intercurrent in Tamil is இடைப்பரவு, ஊடுநிலவு. See Intercurrent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is intercurrent?
Intercurrent can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near intercurrent in the dictionary

  1. intercuneiform
  2. intercur
  3. intercurred
  4. intercurrence
  5. intercurrences
  6. intercurrent
  7. intercurrently
  8. intercurrents
  9. intercurricular
  10. intercurring
  11. intercurs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intercurrent (page history and authors); intercurrent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intercurrent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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