Intermittent Definition

ĭntər-mĭtnt
adjective
Stopping and starting at intervals; pausing from time to time; periodic.
Webster's New World
Alternately containing and empty of water.
An intermittent lake.
American Heritage
(specifically, geology, of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.
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(medicine, dated) An intermittent fever or disease.

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Origin of Intermittent

  • From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, between”), plus present participle mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).

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Intermittent Sentence Examples

  • Shortly afterwards he fell ill of an intermittent fever, but seemed to recover.

  • Their intermittent character prompted the supposition.

  • Locusts are an intermittent plague.

  • It is generally applied to the definite unhealthy condition of body known by a variety of names, such as ague, intermittent (and remittent) fever, marsh fever, jungle fever, hill fever, "fever of the country" and "fever and ague."

  • Local hypertrophy may also be due to stimulation resulting from friction or intermittent pressure, as one may see in the thickenings on the skin of the artisan's hands.

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IININT

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TNTENT

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