Meaning of INTERMITTENCE
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping |
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| | Synonyms: | | intermittency |
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| | See Also: | | irregularity, unregularity | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`ter*mit"tence\, n. [Cf. F. intermittence.]
Act or state of intermitting; intermission. --Tyndall.
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| | Related Terms: | | abeyance, alternation, arrhythmia, beat, break, broken thread, brokenness, caesura, capriciousness, cease-fire, choppiness, coffee break, cyclicalness, day off, desultoriness, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disjunction, downtime, drop, eccentricity, episode, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, fluctuation, half time, half-time intermission, hesitation, holiday, incoherence, incompleteness, inconstancy, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittency, interregnum, interruption, interval, irregularity, jerkiness, lapse, layoff, letup, lull, meter, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, off-time, oscillation, parenthesis, patchiness, pause, pendulum motion, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, plateau, point of repose, pulsation, quiet spell, reappearance, recess, recurrence, regular wave motion, relief, remission, reoccurrence, respite, rest, resting point, return, rhythm, roughness, seasonality, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stand-down, stay, suspension, time off, time out, truce, uncertainty, undulation, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, vacation, variability, whimsicality, wobble |
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