Intermittent productions

[forthright]

I'm looking at the official description of the boundary of my provincial riding (electoral district) just now, where I learn that it is "that part of the City of Windsor lying westerly and southerly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the international boundary between Canada and the United States of America with the

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[celandineb]

*blinks* I have to say, the phrase "intermittent productions" sounds to me like what happens when one is walking an elderly and incontinent canine.

I'm glad it is something else.

[forthright]

It sounds like a phrase that would end up in fiction of a certain sort ... *shudder*

[owlfish]

What a neat phrase!

Intermittent Productions

[anonymous]

I think this may be from the terminology of geometry. I seem to remember this from school lessons on the subject.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) offers as its seventh definition of "produce", "(Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle."