Intercept may refer to: *

X-intercept In mathematics, a zero (also sometimes called a root) of a real-, complex-, or generally vector-valued function f, is a member x of the domain of f such that f(x) ''vanishes'' at x; that is, the function f attains the value of 0 at x, or ...

, the point where a line crosses the x-axis *

Y-intercept In analytic geometry, using the common convention that the horizontal axis represents a variable ''x'' and the vertical axis represents a variable ''y'', a ''y''-intercept or vertical intercept is a point where the graph of a function or relati ...

, the point where a line crosses the y-axis *

Interception In ball-playing competitive team sports, an interception or pick is a move by a player involving a pass of the ball—whether by foot or hand, depending on the rules of the sport—in which the ball is intended for a player of the same team ...

, a play in various forms of football *'' The Mona Intercept'', a 1980 thriller novel by Donald Hamilton * Operation Intercept, an anti-drug measure announced by President Nixon *

Telephone tapping Telephone tapping (also wire tapping or wiretapping in American English) is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitori ...

, the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party *

Tax refund intercept A tax refund interception, also referred to as a tax refund offset, is the act of an agency responsible for sending tax refunds using all or part of a refund to fulfill an obligation of the taxpayer rather than sending the money to the taxpayer him ...

Samsung Intercept The Samsung SPH-M910 (marketed as the Samsung Intercept) is a discontinued Android smartphone manufactured by Samsung. It was released on July 11, 2010, for Sprint in the United States, and was also released on Sprint Nextel-owned prepaid cell ...

(SPH-M910), an Android smartphone *

Visual Intercept Visual Intercept is a Microsoft Windows based software defect tracking system produced by Elsinore Technologies Inc. Visual Intercept was actively sold from 1995 until early 2006 when it was integrated as a single solution in the broader Issue ...

, a Microsoft Windows-based software defect tracking system *

Intermodulation Intercept Point The intermodulation intercept point in electronics is a measure of an electrical device's linearity. When driven by two sinusoidal waveforms, it is the theoretical power level at which the power of the desired tone and the nth-order (where n is od ...

, a measure of an electrical device's linearity *

Intercept message An intercept message is a telephone recording informing the caller that the call cannot be completed, for any of a number of reasons ranging from local congestion, to disconnection of the destination phone, number dial errors or network trouble a ...

, a telephone recording informing the caller that the call cannot be completed *''

The Intercept ''The Intercept'' is an American left-wing news website founded by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras and funded by billionaire eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Its current editor is Betsy Reed. The publication initially repor ...

'', an online news publication edited by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill

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