Definition of intermission

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Intermission (n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes..

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Intermission :: Intermission (n.) Intervention; interposition.
Period :: Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission..
Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
Interpause :: Interpause (n.) An intermission.
Sabbatism :: Sabbatism (n.) Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest..
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure..
Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever..
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation..
Truce :: Truce (n.) Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet..
Articulation :: Articulation (n.) One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc..
Unintermission :: Unintermission (n.) Want or failure of intermission.
Ceaseless :: Ceaseless (adv.) Without intermission or end.
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
Respiration :: Respiration (n.) Interval; intermission.
Respite :: Respite (n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay..
Interruption :: Interruption (n.) Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.
Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..
Remission :: Remission (n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement..
Trill :: Trill (n.) A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages..
Apyretic :: Apyretic (a.) Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.
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