Definition of intermission

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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..

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Sabbathless :: Sabbathless (a.) Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest..
Intermittingly :: Intermittingly (adv.) With intermissions; at intervals.
Interpolate :: Interpolate (v. t.) To renew; to carry on with intermission.
Respiration :: Respiration (n.) Interval; intermission.
Ceaseless :: Ceaseless (adv.) Without intermission or end.
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure..
Tertian :: Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day..
Paroxysm :: Paroxysm (n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions..
Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
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..
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
Haw :: Haw (n.) An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made..
Intermittence :: Intermittence (n.) Act or state of intermitting; intermission.
Sabbatical :: Sabbatical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
Unintermission :: Unintermission (n.) Want or failure of intermission.
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.
Atavism :: Atavism (n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two..
Pause :: Pause (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
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