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intermittence

/in-ter-mit-nt/US // ˌɪn tərˈmɪt nt //UK // (ˌɪntəˈmɪtənt) //

间歇性,间歇期,间歇,间歇性的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.
    • : alternately functioning and not functioning or alternately functioning properly and improperly.
    • : recurrent; showing water only part of the time.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, on-site carbon capture tools may offer promising ways of cleaning up certain tricky sectors, like cement and steel production, or to provide carbon-free electricity from natural gas plants when intermittent solar and wind sources flag.

  • The snow became lighter and more intermittent, but temperatures plunged through the 20s and winds increased to 20 to 25 mph.

  • They're also needed to smooth out the intermittent power generated by windmills and solar panels.

  • Each bottle will fuel the heater for intermittent use for 18 to 24 hours.

  • Be aware that intermittent engine use allows snow that has blown into the engine compartment to melt and refreeze on the wires, possibly impairing operation later.

  • I hope to hear that you have been going on well despite the cruel, restless winds and sad intermittence of sunshine.

  • Such intermittence of consciousness may last not only days, but months, and even years; the change may even become permanent.

  • It would seem that we must seek for some special cause of the pleasurable effect of intermittence in certain cases.

  • However, since we left Moscow he had had frequent cardiac intermittence, accompanied sometimes by sharp pains along the sternum.

  • In 1881, during relapsing fever, I had severe cardiac intermittence, very fatiguing and only relieved by small doses of digitalin.