mediate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with mediate, each labelled with its topic.

• Locke treats our knowledge of the world as mediate, reaching us only through ideas the senses hand along.

  Philosophy

• Heat reaching the thermometer through the glass wall is mediate, so the reading lags behind the real temperature.

  Science

• The tax is mediate rather than direct: shoppers pay it only through the wholesaler who collects it first.

  Economics

• A user's control of the drone is mediate, passing through a satellite link that adds half a second of delay.

  Technology

• The tenant's relationship to the owner is mediate, since every request goes through the agent who holds the keys.

  Law

• Our knowledge of another person's pain is mediate, inferred from a wince or a word rather than felt directly.

  Psychology

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• demonstrator
• transitory
• depress
• secrete
• focussing
• confound
• underlie
• enormity
• aberrant
• links
• stipulate
• constraining