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Intermittent definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTERMIT'TENT, a. Ceasing at intervals; as an intermittent fever.
INTERMIT'TENT, n. A fever which entirely subsides or ceases at certain intervals. The ague and fever is called an intermittent.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin intermittent-, intermittens, present participle of intermittere Date: 1601 coming and going at intervals ; not continuous <intermittent rain>; also occasional <intermittent trips abroad> • intermittently adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. occurring at intervals; not continuous or steady. Derivatives: intermittence n. intermittency n. intermittently adv. Etymology: L intermittere intermittent- (as INTERMIT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Intermittent In`ter*mit"tent, a. [L. intermittens, -entis, p. pr. of intermittere: cf. F. intermittent.] Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. --Boyle. Intermittent fever (Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever. Intermittent gearing (Mach.), gearing which receives, or produces, intermittent motion. Intermittent springs, springs which flow at intervals, not apparently dependent upon rain or drought. They probably owe their intermittent action to their being connected with natural reservoirs in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Intermittent In`ter*mit"tent, n. (Med.) An intermittent fever or disease. --Dunglison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is intermittent happens occasionally rather than continuously. After three hours of intermittent rain, the game was abandoned. = sporadic ADJ • intermittently The talks went on intermittently for three years. ADV: usu ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Intermitting, remittent. II. n. Intermittent fever, remittent fever, fever and ague.

Moby Thesaurus

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