When a vein or a very small artery is severed the blood flows from the vessel in a continuous and even stream, but when one of the larger arteries is severed the blood comes in Intermitting jets or spurts corresponding to the beats of the heart.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
The interrupter is the arrangement for Intermitting the primary current.
"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy"
John Ambrose Fleming
No procession of the seasons-autumn, winter, spring; but one long summer, whose heat, instead of seeming oppressive or exhausting, appeared ever cool, refreshing, and exhilarating, filled with a stream of life, not fluctuating and Intermitting, but constant and untiring.
"Tales of the Caliph"
H. N. Crellin