Sporadic: adj. (word coming from the Greek sporadikos, from sporas “scattered”, radical speirein “to sow”).
The adjective “sporadic” has several meanings:
1. Medicine: Said of a disease that affects a few individuals in isolation (as opposed to endemic, epidemic) and randomly (as opposed to familial, hereditary).
Biology: Dispersed in space.
Sporadic plant species.
2. Current meaning: Which appears, occurs here and there and from time to time, in an irregular manner.
A sporadic occurrence...
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