Intermission(n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
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.
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.
Intermission(n.) Intervention; interposition.
Intermissive(a.) Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.
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