Intermittent
[ɪntə'mɪt(ə)nt] or [,ɪntɚ'mɪtənt]
Definition
(adj.) stopping and starting at irregular intervals; 'intermittent rain showers' .
Typist: Pierce--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever.
(n.) An intermittent fever or disease.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Intermitting.
n. Intermittent fever, fever and ague.
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Examples
- Through this intermittent movement I obtain a longer period of rest for each picture, which accomplishes perfect projection of pictures without flicker. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He had positive bodily pain,--a violent headache, and a throbbing intermittent pulse. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The intermittent grasp and feed of the cloth were hardly perceptible, and yet it permitted the cloth to be turned to make a curved seam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This I accomplished by means of an intermittent movement. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In order to convert this intermittent discharge into a steady stream, an air chamber is installed near the discharge tube, as in Figure 135. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Hitherto her intermittent impulses of resistance had sufficed to maintain her self-respect. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I heard the dull tinkling of a piano at a distance, accompanied by the intermittent knocking of a hammer nearer at hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A tub and a clothes-horse at the other end of the kitchen indicated an intermittent wash of small things also going on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It would seem that each separate formation, like the whole pile of formations in any country, has generally been intermittent in its accumulation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The man was an intermittent drunkard, and when he had the fit on him he was a perfect fiend. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Since only the downward motion of the plunger forces water through _E_, the discharge is intermittent and is therefore not practical for commercial purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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