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intermittent

adj
/ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/UK/ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/US

Etymology

From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).

  1. derived from intermittens
  2. borrowed from intermittent

Definitions

  1. Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals

    Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

    • The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
    • Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
    • Also bloudletting is good in feuers, whether they be continual or intermittent […]

  2. Existing only for certain seasons

    Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.

    • The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.

  3. An intermittent fever or disease.

    • Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats.
    • The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.

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Derived

Charcot intermittent fever, Charcot's intermittent fever, intermittent explosive disorder, intermittent fasting, intermittent lake, intermittently, intermittentness, nonintermittent, unintermittent

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA