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Vinony

intermittent

adjective

  1. occurring sporadically
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/ / /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/

adj

Etymology: From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).

  1. 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.”

  2. Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.

    “The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).

  1. 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.”

    “The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.”