intermittent
Meanings
Adjective
- Stopping and starting, occuring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.
- Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
Noun
Origin
- From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens ("sending between"), from prefix inter- + mittens, from mittere.
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