Intermittently
[intə'mitəntli]
Definition
(adv.) in an intermittent manner; 'intermittently we questioned the barometer'.
Checked by Horatio--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.
Checker: Trent
Examples
- After that Archer was but intermittently aware of the remarks they exchanged. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- How, for instance, a small engine pumping continuously could thus supply many large engines working intermittently. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- By an ingenious arrangement of the mechanism, the film moves intermittently so that it may have a much longer period of rest than of motion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As each stitch was formed the machine fed the broom along laterally and intermittently. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The cards were successively and intermittently fed to a set of needles, which latter, by rising and falling, raise or lower the warp threads attached to the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Thus in conjunction with the shuttle the stitches were formed alternately above and below the binding twine, the holding jaws being raised intermittently for that purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checker: Trent