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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 1.6 [wn]:
sporadic
adj : recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable
instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"
[ant: {continual}]
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