INTERVENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intervening mean? 

• INTERVENING (adjective)
  The adjective INTERVENING has 1 sense:

1. occurring or falling between events or points in time

  Familiarity information: INTERVENING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERVENING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring or falling between events or points in time

Context example:

so much had happened during the intervening years

Similar:

middle (between an earlier and a later period of time)

 Context examples 

An abnormal connection between arteries and veins characterized by the absence of intervening capillaries in the brain.

(Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, NCI Thesaurus)

Congenital vascular anomalies of the brain characterized by tangles of thin walled arteries which communicate directly with veins without intervening capillaries.

(Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A form of articulation in which the bones are connected by intervening substance admitting slight motion.

(Amphiarthrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

NuSTAR complements Chandra and XMM-Newton in its capability to detect higher-energy range of X-rays that can, in fact, penetrate through this intervening gas.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

Using this method, the team uncovered dark matter clumps along the telescope's line of sight to the quasars, as well as in and around the intervening lensing galaxies.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

As an immediate result; having nothing intervening; without deviation or interruption.

(Direct, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormal connection between arteries and veins characterized by the absence of intervening capillaries in the liver.

(Hepatic Arteriovenous Malformation, NCI Thesaurus)

The sledge was still visible, nor did I again lose sight of it except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock concealed it with its intervening crags.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Splenic pulp seen grossly as a reddish brown substance, due to its abundance of red blood cells, consisting of splenic sinuses and the tissue intervening between them (splenic cords).

(Murine Red Pulp, NCI Thesaurus)

Non-coding, intervening sequences of DNA that are transcribed, but are removed from within the primary gene transcript and rapidly degraded during maturation of messenger RNA.

(Intron, NCI Thesaurus)