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Intermittent

Coming and going at intervals alternating recurrent periodic as an intermittent fever...


Intermittently

With intermissions in an intermittent manner intermittingly...


Accident

Accident, anything that happens, an unforeseen or unexpected event, a chance, a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law.Means an unlook for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed, Fenton v. Thorley & Co. Ltd., 1903 AC 443: 72 LJKP 787: 89 LT 314 (HL).The meaning to be attached to the word accident,' in relation to equitable relief, is some unforeseen and undersigned event, productive of disadvantage and not due to negligence or misconduct on the part of the person seeking relief. The cases in which equity may give relief under certain conditions are (1) lost or destroyed documents. (2) Imperfect execution of powers. (3) Erroneous payments, e.g., by personal representatives.In logic, something, in any subject, person, or thing not belonging to the essence. See ESSENCE.The popular and ordinary sense of the word 'accident' means the mishap or an untowa...


Bull roarer

A contrivance consisting of a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong or string with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise It is used as a toy and among some races in certain religious rites...


Cam

A turning or sliding piece which by the shape of its periphery or face or a groove in its surface imparts variable or intermittent motion to or receives such motion from a rod lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it...


Cinematograph

an older name for a movie projector a machine combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features for projecting on a screen a series of pictures moved rapidly 25 to 50 frames per second and intermittently before an objective lens and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion a moving picture projector also any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph biograph bioscope electrograph electroscope kinematograph kinetoscope veriscope vitagraph vitascope zooumlgyroscope zooumlpraxiscope etc...


Concentrator

An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air...


glimmery

shining softly and intermittently...


Intermissive

Having temporary cessations not continual intermittent...


Intermittence

Act or state of intermitting intermission...


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