- A rest
- Breather; interval
- Hiatus, intermission
- Interlude
- Interval of relief
- Pause from exertion
- Postponements
- Brief break dividing a double feature
- Interlude
- The act or the state of intermitting; the state of
being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
- Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time;
an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an
intermission of ten minutes.
- The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the
space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an
entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of
fever.
- Intervention; interposition.