intercept

9 letters · noun · scores 2,600 in SpellHuntr

noun

the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis

verb

seize on its way

Intercept in a sentence

The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.

Because the horizontal-axis intercept occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axis intercept occurs when x=0, we can find the intercepts algebraically.

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