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intermittents

intermittents is the plural of intermittent.

Meaning of intermittent

Noun

intermittent (plural intermittents)

  1. (dated) An intermittent fever or disease.
    • Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats.1592, Nicholas Gyer, chapter 16, in The English Phlebotomy: or, Method and Way of Healing by Letting of Blood, London: Andrew Mansell, page 172

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Questions about intermittents

What is intermittents the plural of?
Intermittents is the plural of intermittent.

Words near intermittents in the dictionary

  1. intermittent explosive disorder
  2. intermittent lake
  3. intermittent lakes
  4. intermittently
  5. intermittentness
  6. intermittents
  7. intermitter
  8. intermitters
  9. intermitting
  10. intermittingly
  11. intermix

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