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means The act of catching, seizing, or cutting off something — a ball, a message, a signal — before it reaches its intended destination.

from From Latin intercipere, 'to seize in passing' — built from inter- ('between') and capere ('to take, seize'), the same capere that gives us 'capture' and 'captive.' So an interception is literally a taking that happens in the middle, between sender and receiver — whether that's a cornerback stepping in front of a route or a spy agency stepping in front of a letter.