INTERMIS'SION, n. L. intermissio. See Intermit.
1. Cessation for a time pause intermediate stop as, to labor without intermission service or business will begin after an intermission of one hour.
2. Intervenient time.
3. 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. The state of being neglected disuse as of words. Little used.
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