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Sporadic

Sporadic Meaning & Definition
Sporadic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sporadic?

[adj] recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Sporadic: fitful | intermittent | irregular | isolated | periodic | scattered | spasmodic | stray | unpredictable

Related Terms | Find terms related to Sporadic:

See Also | discontinuous | infrequent | noncontinuous

Sporadic In Webster's Dictionary

\Spo*rad"ic\, a. [Gr. ? scattered, fr. ?, ?, scattered, fr. ? to sow seed, to scatter like seed: cf. F. sporadique. See {Spore}.] Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower. {Sporadic disease} (Med.), a disease which occurs in single and scattered cases. See the Note under {Endemic}, a.

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