Definition of "intermitting" [intermitting]

• Present participle of intermit. (verb)

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• "Now, the laws of life are absolute, and if proper habits of study have not been formed by the age of nineteen, they never can be formed in this life; the girl who gives only an intermittent attention to study up to her twentieth year, is prevented by all the influences about her from "intermitting" the press of her social duties, so I will not deny that it was the happiest surprise of my life when the first four years of Vassar College showed me that there were still hundreds of girls willing to come to"
• ""intermitting" work, and the after-editions are my own. ..."
• ""Presenting a free energy electric motor that is a motor that produces much greater power than it uses to run it, because the armature has no magnetic coil windings where it is comprised only of iron and is motored by a timed sequence of intermitting electrical excitation of the stator magnetic coils.""