Usually means: Stopping something on its course.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word intercepting:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. intercepting: Merriam-Webster
  2. intercepting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. intercepting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Intercepting, intercepting: Wordnik
  5. intercepting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. intercepting: Wiktionary
  7. Intercepting, intercepting: Dictionary.com
  8. intercepting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Intercepting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Intercepting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. intercepting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. intercepting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. intercepting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. intercepting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. intercepting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intercepting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intercepting: Medical dictionary

(Note: See intercept as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (intercept)

verb:  (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
verb:  (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
verb:  (transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To take or comprehend between.
verb:  To perform an aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
noun:  An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
noun:  An interception of a missile.
noun:  (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
noun:  (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.
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