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in·ter·mit·tent

 (ĭn′tər-mĭt′nt)
adj.
1. Stopping and starting at intervals. See Synonyms at periodic.
2. Alternately containing and empty of water: an intermittent lake.

in′ter·mit′tence n.
in′ter·mit′tent·ly adv.
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Adv.1.intermittently - in an intermittent manner; "intermittently we questioned the barometer"
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intermittently

adverb
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Translations
بِصورةٍ مُتَقَطِّعَه
občas
idõszakosanmegszakításokkal
meî hléum
aralıklarla

intermittently

[ˌɪntəˈmɪtəntlɪ] ADVa ratos, a intervalos
it rained intermittentlyllovía a ratos or a intervalos
they worked/met intermittentlytrabajaban/se veían de cuando en cuando
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intermittently

[ˌɪntərˈmɪtəntli] advpar intermittence, par intervalles
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intermittently

advperiodisch; (Tech) → intermittierend; the patient was only intermittently consciousder Patient war nur zeitweise bei Bewusstsein
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intermittently

[ˌɪntəˈmɪtntlɪ] adva intermittenza
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intermittent

(intəˈmitənt) adjective
happening occasionally; stopping for a while and then starting again. an intermittent pain.
ˌinterˈmittently adverb
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References in classic literature ?
To that end Kutuzov's activity was directed during the whole campaign from Moscow to Vilna- not casually or intermittently but so consistently that he never once deviated from it.
The time passed by, and he slept intermittently for hours.
But the rather prominent eyes and the impulsive stammering manner, which seemed to indicate a torrent of ideas intermittently pressing for utterance and always checked in their course by a clutch of nervousness, drew no pity, as in the case of a more imposing personage, but a desire to laugh, which was, however, entirely lacking in malice.
During the small hours of the next morning, while it was still dark, dwellers near the highways were conscious of a disturbance of their night's rest by rumbling noises, intermittently continuing till daylight--noises as certain to recur in this particular first week of the month as the voice of the cuckoo in the third week of the same.
It must have taken us all of a month, working intermittently, to make our tree-house; and then, when it was completed, we never used it again.
Doors banged somewhere; the elevated trains roared intermittently; a cat yowled miserably upon a back fence.
There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.'
The night was warm and still, and a little oppressive; the sound of guns continued intermittently, and after midnight there seemed to be sheet lightning in the south.
Lord Winter was seated near an aperture, arranged as a window to let in the night air, his eyes mechanically following the course of the moon, intermittently veiled, as we before observed, by heavy clouds.
Then almost as quickly as it had begun, the whole cataclysm ceased, though a deep-down rumbling continued intermittently for some time.
After that Archer was but intermittently aware of the remarks they exchanged.
Her own figure, as she sat writing with a pad on her knee, shared the general effect of size and lack of detail, for the flames which ran along the branches, suddenly devouring little green tufts, burnt intermittently and sent irregular illuminations across her face and the plaster walls.