Crossword clues for intermittent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International 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.
Intermittent \In`ter*mit"tent\, n. (Med.)
An intermittent fever or disease.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin intermittentem (nominative intermittens), present participle of intermittere (see intermission). Related: Intermittently.
Wiktionary
a. 1 stop and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant 2 (context specifically geology of a body of water English) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year. n. (context medicine dated English) An intermittent fever or disease.
WordNet
adj. stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers"
stopping and starting at regular intervals
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "intermittent".
Overhead, the Bofors began an intermittent and deafening hack: two explosions every second.
Likewise, this decoction, in common with an extract of the herb, has been given curatively for intermittent fever and ague, as well as for some depressed, and disordered states of the nervous system.
Even whatever consciousness spoke from that future Dreamtime through Ralf seemed capable of only intermittent mastery when it came to manifestation in the here and now.
As soon as the overhead door reached its apogee, the driverless vehicle began to give off high-pitched, intermittent beeps as it rolled forward in a thunderous, jerky fashion.
Half of it had fallen away, leaving the standing part like an egg broken endways, the curving half-dome backed against the wind and offering some sort of protection from the intermittent sleet.
A power saw started up, sounding like the floatplane taking off, but intermittent, and there was the crash and thud of a tree going down.
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For some minutes I lay there in the rain and darkness watching, by the intermittent light, these monstrous beings of metal moving about in the distance over the hedge tops.
By the time General Grisham had returned from his meeting at the Pentagon, it was dark in Mogadishu, and the intermittent signals received on the secure video link were no longer in color.
Within the past few hours several men had been ordered home, overfatigued despite their intermittent use of sleeping quarters provided at the airport for just this kind of emergency.
The pains, which precede each evacuation, are intermittent in character.
As a matter of fact, there have been intermittent rebellions against the prevailing pecksniffery and sentimentality ever since the days of Irving and Hawthorne.
Behind him colored lights flashed at the nightStarlight Starbright, Overnighters Welcome in intermittent neon swirls.
In those stretches of wilderness between holdings, he heard nothing except the intermittent beat of oars keeping them in the main channel and the lap of water at the bows.
Canton continued to be intermittent host to a kind of subgovernment maintained by the leaders of the still viable left wing, Wang Ching-wei, Eugene Chen and Sun Fo, the son of Dr.