About The Word Intermittent
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Intermittent
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Intermittent Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Intermittent?
[adj] stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers"
[adj] stopping and starting at regular intervals Synonyms | Synonyms for Intermittent: periodic | periodical | sporadic Related Terms | Find terms related to Intermittent: alternate | alternating | arrested | beating | broken | broken off | capricious | careening | catchy | checked | chopped-off | choppy | circling | cyclic | cyclical | decousu | desultory | deviative | disconnected | discontinued | discontinuous | discrete | disjunctive | eccentric | episodic | epochal | erratic | even | every other | fitful | flickering | fluctuating | guttering | halting | herky-jerky | heteroclite | immethodical | incoherent | inconstant | infrequent | intermitting | interrupted | irregular | isochronal | isochronous | iterative | jagged | jerky | lurching | measured | metrical | metronomic | noncontinuous | nonlinear | nonsequential | nonserial | nonuniform | occasional | on-again-off-again | oscillatory | parenthetic | patchy | periodic | periodical | pulsating | pulsing | rambling | random | reciprocal | recurrent | recurring | rhythmic | rhythmical | rotary | rough | scrappy | seasonal | serial | snatchy | spasmatic | spasmic | spasmodic | spastic | sporadic | spotty | staggering | steady | suspended | uncertain | unconnected | undulant | undulatory | unequal | uneven | unjoined | unmethodical | unmetrical | unregular | unrhythmical | unsettled | unsteady | unsuccessive | unsystematic | variable | veering | wandering | wavelike | wavering | wheeling | wobbling | wobbly See Also | Intermittent In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\In`ter*mit"tent\, n. (Med.) An intermittent fever or disease. --Dunglison. |
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