Intermission

n.	1.
	1.	The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
	2.	Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. - Milton.
	3.	The short period between acts of a play, concert, opera, or other public performance when the audience may leave their seats for refreshment; - it usually lasts from 10 to 20 minutes.
	4.	(Med.) 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.
	5.	Intervention; interposition.

Noun	1.	intermission - the act of suspending activity temporarily
	2.	intermission - a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something Synonyms: pause, suspension, interruption, break

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