English-French translations for intermittent

• discontinu
  Rien n'est dit quant aux mesures à prendre pour stopper ces flux discontinus d'immigration illégale. There is nothing about measures to stop these intermittent floods of illegal immigration.
• intermittent
  Tout le monde peut voir la pauvreté extrême, l'exclusion sociale, le chômage intermittent et le faible niveau d'éducation dont ils sont victimes. Everyone can see the extreme poverty, social exclusion, intermittent unemployment and low level of education that they are victims of.
  Nous ne pouvons manquer de condamner la référence à la "flexibilité", qui est synonyme d'emplois précaires, incertains, intermittents et mal rémunérés pour nos jeunes. We cannot fail to point out and condemn the advocating of 'flexibility', pushing young people into insecure, uncertain, intermittent and poorly paid work.
  J'admets que les questions de préservation de la biodiversité ne sont soulevées dans le débat public que de manière intermittente. I agree that biodiversity conservation issues are raised only intermittently in public debate.

Definition of intermittent

• Stopping and starting, occuring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span
• Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year
• An intermittent fever or disease

Examples

• The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
• Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
• The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.

Related words

• intermittently
• intermittency
• intermittence
• unintermittent
• intermittentness
• intermittent lake
• intermittent claudication
• intermittent snowstorms