Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Stopping and starting at intervals. See Synonyms at periodic.
- adj. Alternately containing and empty of water: an intermittent lake.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Ceasing at intervals; that alternately stops and starts; intermitting: as, an intermittent fever; an intermittent spring.
- n. Intermittent fever.
Wiktionary
- adj. Stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant
- adj. specifically, geology, of a body of water Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
- n. medicine, dated An intermittent fever or disease.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic.
- n. (Med.) An intermittent fever or disease.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. stopping and starting at irregular intervals
Examples
“ The classification - intermittent or persistent - leads us to the proper management and treatment of asthma The basics: intermittent asthma = bronchodilators as needed persistent asthma = daily anti - inflammatory + bronchodilators as needed”
“We have seen climate change in intermittent rainfall patterns, extended drought and very high temperatures.”
Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee.
“The fact that signs of rising demand are intermittent is giving copper's rally its staggered feel, analysts say.”
“They claim it was a DOS attack: “This morning, March 11, some of our Go Daddy services came under significant and sustained distributed denial of service attacks resulting in intermittent disruptions of various services, including shared hosting and email.””
“We were too lazy to do more than mumble on in intermittent conversation.”
“Nearby streets may be subject to police-controlled, short-term intermittent closures.”
“This understates the investment in solar power required to fill the gap, however, because nuclear plants run most of the time while solar power is by definition intermittent.”
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“And this goes to one of the ideas that psychiatrists think is the most powerful in luring people, and it's called intermittent reinforcement.”
“In western states like Arizona, upward of 96 percent of all waterways, commonly known as intermittent streams, are at risk.”
Steve Fleischli: America's Waterways Need Help - and, Yes, You Can Help
“I think that's because of what blogger brokenclay refers to as intermittent disability, though lately mine's been less intermittent and more constant.”
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT WORD DUMP - as ...
The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
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A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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inter-
between or among; mutually
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fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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betweeness
cognitive, dissonance, connotation, existentialism, interstitial, enigmatic, floater, interrobang, ampersand, intermittent
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL I
iconoclast, idiosyncrasy, ignoble, ignominious, illicit, illusory, illustrious, imbibe, imbue, immaculate, immaterial, immolate and 155 more...
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claimant, delete, register, invoice, spreadsheet, alert, electronic, cartridge, password, dashboard, certificate, presentation and 90 more...
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obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
palpitation, scravel, jactitate, pounce, wobble, vibrate, undulate, didder, effleurage, flail, ague, swerve and 169 more...
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List of words to expand my vocabulary
does what it says on the tin, and is severely needed.
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interminable, effete, convocation, philistines, malaise, foibles, deputation, anathematized, morass, stalwart, proselytize, abet and 405 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Words of the Day
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