Definition of intermission

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Intermission (n.) Intervention; interposition.

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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..
Sabbath :: Sabbath (n.) Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like..
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.
Respite :: Respite (n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay..
Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..
Recess :: Recess (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school..
Period :: Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission..
Perennial :: Perennial (a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
Respiration :: Respiration (n.) Interval; intermission.
Unintermission :: Unintermission (n.) Want or failure of intermission.
Truce :: Truce (n.) Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet..
Intermittingly :: Intermittingly (adv.) With intermissions; at intervals.
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..
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..
Apyretic :: Apyretic (a.) Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.
Interpause :: Interpause (n.) An intermission.
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation..
Ceaseless :: Ceaseless (adv.) Without intermission or end.
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..
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