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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
interform en · ADJ
Etymology
From inter- + form.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Between forms (school groups).
There was an interform competition each year where each form [grade level] had to put together a program including a few solos and a whole form piece. All of this was run by one very energetic music teacher who sadly died last year.
2011, Lucy Green, Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity: Voices Across Cultures, page 228:
interform en · NOUN
Etymology
From inter- + form.
Meanings
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An intermediate form.
Having completed its cycle on the nuclear or female stage of maturement, its atmosphere, the sum of the atmospheres or essential organisms of its interforms, ascended as a whole to the atmospheric or male plane of maturement.
1879, Jean Story, Substantialism; Or, Philosophy of Knowledge, page 267:A “zone of rarity” emerges when symptoms cluster neatly into syndromes and interforms are uncommon, although not altogether absent. Fuzzy boundaries and interforms are a special problem for PTSD […]
2004, Gerald Rosen, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies, page 127:
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