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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Intermission \In`ter*mis"sion\, n. [L. intermissio: cf F.
intermission. See {Intermit}.]
1. The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being
neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. --B. Jonson
2. Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an
interval; a temporary pause; as to labor without
intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
Rest or intermission none I find --Milton.
3. (Med.) 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.
4. Intervention; interposition. [Obs.] --Heylin.
Syn: Cessation; interruption; interval; pause; stop; rest;
suspension. See {Cessation}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
intermission
n 1: the act of suspending activity temporarily
2: a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation
of something [syn: {pause}, {break}, {interruption}, {suspension}]
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