Sekirov Dictionary

intermittent

UK /ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/US /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

•
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.
•
Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
- The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.

noun1

•
(old-fashioned) 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. — 1592

forms

intermittents · more intermittent · most intermittent

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