English-Italian translations for intermittent

• intermittente
  E' una forma di energia immagazzinabile, quindi complementare ad altre fonti energetiche rinnovabili a disponibilità intermittente. It is a storable form of energy, so is complementary to other intermittent sources of renewables.
  Inoltre, il Consiglio è un'Istituzione intermittente.It is not their job. What is more, the Council is an intermittent institution.
  Intermittente perché queste crisi durano per periodi relativamente brevi dato che le forze di mercato intervengono per sostenere la situazione e porvi rimedio. It is intermittent because these crises endure for relatively short periods as market forces come to bear and rectify the situation.
• saltuario

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