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intermittence|ɪntəˈmɪtəns|
Also -ance.
[a. F. intermittence (1740 in Hatz.–Darm.): see intermittent and -ence.]
1. The fact of intermitting; discontinuance or cessation for a time.
1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 185 The intermittence of certain fountains..which flow only at particular hours of the day. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. xix. 339 A long intermittance of activity in the principal volcano. 1865Mill Pol. Econ. (ed. 6) iv. vii. §2 The progress..will take place more rapidly, and with fewer intermittences and aberrations. 1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 318 Hyoscyamia renders the movements of the heart regular; daturia often produces intermittence and arrest of action.
2. Alternation, intermittent sequence.
1860Tyndall Glac. i. v. 41 A wonderful intermittence of gloom and glare. |