Dictionary Definition
intermittence n : the quality of being
intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping [syn:
intermittency]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The state of being sporadic or intermittent.
Related terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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