interform

interform

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ form.

Adjective

interform (not comparable)

1. Between forms (school groups).
   • 2011, Lucy Green, Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity: Voices Across Cultures (page 228)

     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.

Noun

interform (plural interforms)

1. An intermediate form.
   • 1879, Jean Story, Substantialism; Or, Philosophy of Knowledge (page 267)

     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.

   • 2004, Gerald Rosen, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies (page 127)

     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 […]