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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
in·ter·mit·tent 
[in-ter-mit-nt] Pronunciation Key
[in-ter-mit-nt] Pronunciation Key –adjective
| 1. | stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain. |
| 2. | alternately functioning and not functioning or alternately functioning properly and improperly. |
| 3. | (of streams, lakes, or springs) recurrent; showing water only part of the time. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| in·ter·mit·tent
(ĭn'tər-mĭt'nt) Pronunciation Key
adj.
in'ter·mit'tence n., in'ter·mit'tent·ly adv. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| intermittent | |
adjective | |
| stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers" |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
in'ter·mit'tence n.
intermittent in·ter·mit·tent (ĭn'tər-mĭt'nt)
adj.
- Stopping and starting at intervals.
- Marked by intervals of complete quietude occurring between two periods of activity.
in'ter·mit'tence n.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Intermittent
In`ter*mit"tent\, n. (Med.) An intermittent fever or disease. --Dunglison.
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