intermittent
adjective
stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again.
intermittence
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a word derived from
intermittent.
Example Sentences
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“A way to address intermittence is to add storage,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Renewable-energy sources carry burdens of their own—including the intermittence of solar and wind power, for which battery storage generally can’t fully compensate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
They offer narratives of belief, and novelistic narratives make real the ambiguity, the contradiction, the intermittence, even the absurdity and comic irrationality of our intellectual lives.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2011
DJ Paradise Lost will play during film intermittence and before the competition, which will start at 10 pm.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the reasons already detailed at length, we think that such supervision does not necessitate periodical intermittence of study, except in special cases, that constitute a decided minority among the whole.
From The Education of American Girls by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
