About The Word Sporadic
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Sporadic
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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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