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Old-fashioned, somewhat loosely used term in [[Geometry|geometry]] that is used to refer to a part of a line, curve, plane, or surface intercepted (i.e. cut out or marked) by other lines, curves, etc.

For instance, the axis intercept form of the equation of a line in $\mathbf R^2$ is $x/a+y/b=1$. This line cuts the $x$-axis at $(a,0)$ and the $y$-axis at $(0,b)$ (see [[#References|[a1]]]).

====References====
<table><TR><TD valign="top">[a1]</TD> <TD valign="top">  I.N. Bronshtein,   K.A. Semendyayev,   "Handbook of mathematics" , H. Deutsch  (1985)  (In Russian)</TD></TR></table>