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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Stopping and starting at intervals. See Synonyms at periodic.
  2. adj. Alternately containing and empty of water: an intermittent lake.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Ceasing at intervals; that alternately stops and starts; intermitting: as, an intermittent fever; an intermittent spring.
  2. n. Intermittent fever.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic.
  2. n. An intermittent fever or disease.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. stopping and starting at irregular intervals

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