Interception

Part of speech: noun

Pronunciation: /ɪntɚˈsɛpʃən/

Definitions

1. It denotes the act of preventing something from reaching its final destination by taking it midway
2. The act of stopping or seizing an object on its way to a designated point involves obstructing its path or capturing its content before it arrives at its goal
3. The process of halting or seizing something in transit before it reaches its intended place

Etymology: The English noun "interception" is built from the Latin verb "intercipere," meaning "to take or seize between," from "inter" ("between") and "capere" ("to take"). The Latin "interceptio" carried the same sense of seizing something on its way from one point to another, and English borrowed the word from it. The idea of catching something mid-course is literal at the root: a message, a messenger, or a shipment was caught between its sender and its destination. French kept the same form as "interception," and English speakers borrowed the word in parallel with that French usage. The modern sense is therefore a direct extension of the Latin picture, with the "between" of the original capturing the gap in transit.

Synonyms: seizure, capture, interruption, obstruction, snatching

Antonyms: release, dispersal, liberation, allowance, permitting