intervening adj

1 occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so much had happened during the intervening years"

2 standing between or separating two objects or areas; "Paris--where the same city lies on both sides of an intervening river"; "after reaching the top of the hill he looked across an intervening meadow to another line of hills"

English

Noun

intervening

1. intervention; mediation

Adjective

intervening

1. that intervenes or mediates

Verb

intervening

1. present participle of intervene

Derived terms

• intervening cause
• intervening variable

Intervention may refer to:

• Intervention (counseling), an attempt to compel a subject to "get help" for an addiction or other problem
• Intervention (economics), when a central bank buys or sells foreign currencies in an attempt to adjust exchange rates
• Intervention (TV series), a documentary series
• Intervention (Buffy episode), an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• "Intervention" (song), a song by Arcade Fire from Neon Bible
• "Intervention", a song by Madonna from American Life
• Intervention (law), a legal procedure for a nonparty to enter an ongoing lawsuit
• Art intervention, an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, or venue/space
• Cognitive interventions, a set of techniques and therapies practiced in counseling
• Health intervention, an effort to promote good health behaviour or to prevent bad health behaviour
• Humanitarian intervention, an attempt to reduce suffering within a state through armed conflict
• Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War at 1918-1925
• The Ottaviani Intervention, a study written by Cardinals Alfredo Ottaviani and Antonio Bacci to Pope Paul VI concerning changes to the Catholic Mass.
• Well intervention, a term for the maintenance and repair of oil and gas wells
• Another name for the Northern Territory National Emergency Response

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