to come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the mediterranean intervenes between europe and africa.-to occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.-to interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.-in a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the   subject matter.-to come between.-a coming between; intervention; meeting.