<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger</li><li>to see or overhear (a message, transmission, etc., meant for another): We intercepted the enemy's battle plan</li><li>to stop or check (passage, travel, etc.): to intercept the traitor's escape</li><li>Sports: to take possession of (a ball or puck) during an attempted pass by an opposing team</li><li>to stop or interrupt the course, progress, or transmission of</li><li>to destroy or disperse (enemy aircraft or a missile or missiles) in the air on the way to a target</li><li>to stop the natural course of (light, water, etc.)</li><li>Mathematics: to mark off or include, as between two points or lines</li><li>to intersect</li><li>Obsolete: to prevent or cut off the operation or effect of</li><li>Obsolete: to cut off from access, sight, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an interception</li><li>Mathematics: an intercepted segment of a line</li><li>(in a coordinate system) the distance from the origin to the point at which a curve or line intersects an axis</li></ul>