Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sporadic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sporadic \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sporadic
adj : recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable
instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"
[ant: {continual}]
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