1.acting through or dependent on an intervening agency;
the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact
2.being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series;
adolescence is an awkward in-between age
1.act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
He interceded in the family dispute
2.occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others;
mediate between the old and the new