INTERMITTENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intermittently mean? 

• INTERMITTENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb INTERMITTENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an intermittent manner

  Familiarity information: INTERMITTENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERMITTENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an intermittent manner

Context example:

intermittently we questioned the barometer

Pertainym:

intermittent (stopping and starting at irregular intervals)

 Context examples 

This is manifest on the ECG by regular P waves which intermittently are not followed by QRS complexes.

(AV Block Second Degree by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A data type comprised of an interval of time that occurs intermittently.

(Periodic Interval Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

The time passed by, and he slept intermittently for hours.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

(NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars, NASA)

In addition to young mice injected with senescent cells, the researchers also tested older (20-month-old), non-transplanted mice with D+Q intermittently for 4 months.

(Senolytic drugs reverse damage caused by senescent cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

The brightest eruption features, which appear to be discrete jets, look to them to be superimposed intermittently upon this background structure.

(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)

Instead of intermittently contracting, the atria quiver continuously in a chaotic pattern, causing a totally irregular, often tachycardia ventricular rate.

(Chronic Atrial Fibrillation, NCI Thesaurus)

An arrhythmia in which minute areas of the atrial myocardium are in various uncoordinated stages of depolarization and repolarization; instead of intermittently contracting, the atria quiver continuously in a chaotic pattern, causing a totally irregular, often rapid ventricular rate.

(Atrial Fibrillation, Food and Drug Administration)