Definition of Intermitent
In`ter*mit"tent (?), a. [L.
intermittens, -entis, p. pr. of intermittere:
cf. F. intermittent.] Coming and going at intervals;
alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent
fever. Boyle.
Intermittent fever (Med.), a disease
with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly
to fever and ague. See Fever. -- Intermittent
gearing (Mach.), gearing which receives, or
produces, intermittent motion. -- Intermittent
springs, springs which flow at intervals, not
apparently dependent upon rain or drought. They probably owe their
intermittent action to their being connected with natural reservoirs
in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the
water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the
upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it
has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the
reservoir.
In`ter*mit"tent, n. (Med.)
An intermittent fever or disease. Dunglison.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Stopping and starting at intervals; not steady or constant
The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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