单词 | intervening |
释义 | interveningadj. 1. gen. That intervenes. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [adjective] middlea1200 mean1340 mediate?1440 intercedent1578 interjacent1594 intermedial1599 intermiddle1613 intervenient1626 intervalling1632 intermediate1646 intervening1646 mediatory1650 intercurrent1656 intermedious1678 intermediant1716 intercepting1826 mediant1853 intermediary1875 interferent1876 the world > time > [adjective] > intervening middlea1200 meana1382 interloping1603 interim1604 intercurrent1611 odd1618 intermediate1623 intervenient1629 intermedian1656 interveninga1781 interstitial1841 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 50 All the intervening Mediums. c1709 M. Prior Charity 37 As through the artist's intervening glass Our eye observes the distant planets pass. a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) i. 72 In the intervening night a dreadful storm arose. 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 304 Separated from each other by deep intervening oceans. 2. Psychology, intervening variable, a factor, such as individual memory, desire, or habit, which may affect the results of psychological tests or experiments in a way which is hard to predict. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > factor analysis > [noun] > factor affecting test intervening variable1935 1935 E. C. Tolman in Philos. Sci. 2 365 The nature of this their resulting behavior is determined by a set of intervening variables to be conceived as lying in the organism... The molar behaviorist seeks to state the intervening variables as specific types of behavior-readiness. 1951 Mind 60 50 The methodological device of the ‘intervening variable’ (drive, habit, demand, etc.). 1963 A. Pap Introd. Philos. Sci. v. xx. 383 Human behavior also has mental determinants, such factors as memories, expectations, desires, [etc.]. But since these ‘intervening variables’ were supposed to be inaccessible to scientific investigation, the tendency developed to interpret them as certain dispositions to overt behavior. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2019). > as lemmasinterˈvening interˈvening n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] interventionc1425 interposition1462 striking1530 intercourse1586 entermise1600 intervening1605 intermitter1611 interposal1625 interveniencea1627 intermission1628 interveniency1660 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh3v Many parts of Nature can neither be inuented..nor demonstrated..without the aide and interueyning of the Mathematicks. View more context for this quotation 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. iii. sig. Bb2 Prevented by the intervening of Eusebius. < adj.1646 as lemmas |
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