What is the difference between intermediate and terminal operations?

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S.no	INTERMEDIATE	Terminal
1.	The intermediate operation produces stream pipelining	Terminal operation TERMINATE the pipeline
2.	Intermediate OPERATIONS can be CHAINED multiple times on a stream	Terminal operations cannot be chained various times.
3.	Intermediate operations cannot be evaluated independently; it NEEDS a terminal operation for evaluation.	Terminal Operations can be evaluated independently.

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