Usually means: Engine stops and starts automatically.
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  1. stop-start: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. stop-start, stop-start: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Stop-start, stop-start: Wordnik
  4. stop-start: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.

Similar:
recurrent, nonstop, out-and-back, back and forth, recidivous, endocycling, interspawning, recidivistic, shiftlike, transonic, more...

Opposite:
continuous, uninterrupted, smooth, flowing, steady

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Similar:
recurrent, nonstop, out-and-back, back and forth, recidivous, endocycling, interspawning, recidivistic, shiftlike, transonic, more...

Opposite:
continuous, uninterrupted, smooth, flowing, steady



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