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interform en · ADJ

Etymology

From inter- + form.

Meanings

  1. (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

  1. 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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