The phrase "a kind of intermediate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a middle point or transitional phase between two states or categories.
Example: "The new software acts as a kind of intermediate between the user and the complex database."
Alternatives: "a sort of intermediary" or "a type of transition".
Nonparametric data takes a kind of, intermediate route.
All computer languages can be compiled into an abstract syntax tree, a kind of intermediate representation that is usually turned into the binary code.
So stories are similar according to the concepts they contain, not according to the players involved, when you look at it from a kind of intermediate feature point of view.
Lévi-Strauss suggested that in these examples the house was a kind of intermediate institution that took its place between societies that were organized through kinship and those where social organization was based on class.
In the probabilistic ERA, flammable gas cloud frequency distribution is a kind of intermediate result, which can be obtained by integrating the results of frequency analysis and gas dispersion modeling.
With the more recent turn toward "Occupy Sandy," we seem to be entering a kind of intermediate phase, which could signal the turn toward something new.
More recently, development of application-oriented domain ontologies such as the OBO ontologies have led to the proposal of a kind of intermediate-level ontologies, also called top-domain ontologies, such as the Simple Bio Upper Ontology (Rector, 2006), GFO-Bio (Hoehndorf, 2008) or BioTop (Beisswanger, 2008).
Theorists are still trying to understand how this structure evolved, figuring that there must have been a kind of early intermediate stage when tiny dark matter clumps formed, grew, pulled in stars and other visible matter and finally became the giant masses we see today.
The third will be a new type - Khan's promised "London living rent" tenure, a new kind of "intermediate" affordable home designed for private sector renters.
And either of these extremes, in many countries under most circumstances, may be less satisfactory than that outmoded middle.For years one of the most steadfast and convincing advocates of a particular kind of "intermediate" regime has been John Williamson of the Institute for International Economics.
Distance matrix is a common kind of intermediate data which allows building phylogenetic trees and networks from different raw data using the same algorithms.
