sporadic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sporadic	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sporadic adj recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids" Antonym(s): continual
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sporadic \Sporad"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.