单词 | intermittent |
释义 | intermittent —intermittence, intermittency, n. —intermittently, adv. /in'teuhr mit"nt/, adj. 1. stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain. 2. alternately functioning and not functioning or alternately functioning properly and improperly. 3. (of streams, lakes, or springs) recurrent; showing water only part of the time. [1595-1605; < L intermittent- (s. of intermittens) prp. of intermittere to INTERMIT; see -ENT] Syn. 1. interrupted, sporadic. |
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