Sporadic

Definition: Sporadic

Sporadic

Adjective

1. Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids".

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Date "sporadic" was first used: 1689. (references)

Etymology: Sporadic \Spo*rad"ic\, adjective. [Greek expression scattered, from scattered, from to sow seed, to scatter like seed: compare to the French expression sporadique. See Spore.]. (Websters 1913)

Health

Medicine

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Nonassemblage Dispersion

Adjective: unassembled; (see assemble; ); dispersed; Verb: sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic; (general); adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming.

Crosswords: Sporadic

Romanian (sporadic, sporadically).

Books

• Brauer Trees of Sporadic Groups (reference)

• Construction and Coverings: Volume 2 : The Geometries of Sporadic Groups (reference)

• Genet Zn Superoxide Dismutase Gene in Belgian Patients with Familial or Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral (reference)

• Geometry of Sporadic Groups II: Representations and Amalgams (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications, Vol 91) (reference)

• Low Rank Representations and Graphs for Sporadic Groups (reference)

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Music

• Return of the Sporadic Recordings [IMPORT] (reference)

• Sporadic Spectra (reference)

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Chest radiograph of patient with sporadic case of Legionnaires' disease. Credit: CDC.

Sporadic Cretinism. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Health

Most cases of CVID, however, are sporadic. (references)

The two basic types of AD are familial and sporadic. (references)

These cases are called sporadic and their cause is unknown. (references)

Business

Terrorism is no longer a danger in major Peruvian cities, although terrorist groups continue to carry out sporadic activities in remote areas. (references)

Currently, there are no full-scale franchised health food stores in operation and most attempts to set up franchised stores by small local firms have been sporadic. (references)

Children

Indonesia

Low-cost medical care is available, although access and availability sometimes are sporadic, especially in rural areas. (references)

Antigua and Barbuda

Several alleged offenders reportedly were allowed to leave the country permanently, while prosecution generally appeared to be sporadic and half-hearted. (references)

Civil Liberties

Laos

The small Catholic community in Luang Prabang holds services in members' homes, but they are sporadic. (references)

Economic History

Cape Verde

Trade fairs are sporadic but nevertheless a popular means of reaching the Cape Verdean buyer. (references)

Kazakhstan

Nevertheless, systematic intellectual property violations persist and enforcement remains sporadic at best. (references)

Mexico

Since 1994 sporadic clashes have continued to occur between armed civilian groups, usually over disputed land claims. (references)

Human Rights

Vietnam

However, this practice appeared to be sporadic and is not applied consistently. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sporadic violence against international community representatives continued throughout the year. (references)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The report also noted that police and guards conducted sporadic, infrequent, and inefficient searches of the prison. (references)

Minorities

Iran

These suspicions have led to sporadic outbreaks of fighting between government forces and Kurdish groups. (references)

Haiti

Mulattos historically have been targets of sporadic attack in many cases because they are perceived to be wealthy. (references)

Nigeria

Unlike in the previous year, there were no reported sporadic incidents of attacks on individual religious leaders. (references)

Political Economy

Georgia

Ceasefires were in effect in both areas, although sporadic incidents of violence occurred in Abkhazia. (references)

Afghanistan

Opposition forces continued sporadic rocket attacks against Kabul and bombarded civilians indiscriminately. (references)

East Timor

Despite such sporadic militia incursions, the security situation in most of East Timor was stable throughout the year. (references)

Political Rights

Togo

National election observer organizations did not participate, and international observation was sporadic. (references)

Nepal

During the most recent national elections in 1999, there were sporadic incidents of violence that mainly occurred between supporters of rival political parties. (references)

Mozambique

The 6-week campaign period was marked by some sporadic violence attributable to both FRELIMO and RENAMO-UE supporters, although at significantly reduced levels compared to the 1994 elections. (references)

Trade

Norway

The stated reason for this is that many false "CE" labels appear on toys (in particular) exported from the PRC. An internal control will be required and Norwegian authorities will perform sporadic controls. (references)

Travel

Costa Rica

Past demonstrations have resulted in port closures, roadblocks, and sporadic gasoline shortages. (references)

Turkey

Although sporadic incidents involving terrorist groups continue to occur, the general security situation throughout Turkey is stable at this time. (references)

Women

Nauru

However, credible reports indicate that sporadic abuse, often aggravated by alcohol use, occurs. (references)

Cambodia

Despite sporadic crackdowns on brothel operators in Phnom Penh, prostitution continued to flourish. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

The DOLE manages enforcement of workweek hours through sporadic inspections. (references)

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Expressions using "sporadic": sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis ♦ sporadic cholera ♦ sporadic disease ♦ sporadic E ♦ sporadic E layer. Additional references.

Beginning with "sporadic": sporadic-E.

Albanian

sporadik, i vetëm (all, alone, lone, lonesome, one, only, single, Singleton, sole, solitary, solo, unaccompanied, unique, very), i rastësishëm (accidental, casual, chanceful, coincidental, desultory, fortuitous, incident, incidental, lucky, odd, random). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متفرق (divided, occasional, separate), ‏متقطع (broken, casual, choppy, cut off, disconnected, discontinuous, fitful, fretful, intermission, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, occasional, remittent, spasmodic, torn apart, uneven), ‏متشتت. (various references)

Bulgarian 

случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), спорадичен, разпилян (scattered, scattering, straggling), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo), единичен (individual, one track, particular, several, single, stray). (various references)

Chinese 

零落 (scattered, withered and fallen), 分散 (Dispersed, Disperser, Distract, Distracted, Distracting, spitting, Sporadical). (various references)

Czech

sporadický (spasmodic), ojedinìlý (solitary, stray, unique). (various references)

Danish

sporadisk. (various references)

Dutch

sporadisch, dungezaaid (airy). (various references)

Esperanto

sporada. (various references)

Faeroese

spjaddur. (various references)

Farsi 

پراکنده (Diffuse, Outspread, Sparse), گاه وبیگاه (Occasionally), تک وتوک , تک تک , انفرادی . (various references)

Finnish

q-tyyppinen sporadinen E-kerros päivällä (q-type sporadic E during daytime). (various references)

French

sporadique. (various references)

German

sporadisch (fitful, fitfully, spasmodic, spasmodically, sporadically), zeitweilig (now and then, odd, temporarily, temporary), vereinzelt (isolated, isolates, occasional, scattered, stray), unregelmäßig (abnormal, anomalous, casual, erratic, fitful, irregular, irregularly, uneven, unsteady). (various references)

Greek 

σποραδικός (occasional). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא ס�"יר (fitful, irregular). (various references)

Hungarian

szórványos (diffuse, sparse, stray). (various references)

Indonesian

jarang (infrequent, rare, scarce, seldom). (various references)

Italian

sporadico (occasional). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

散発的 , 散発 (scattering). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さ�"ぱつてき, さ�"ぱつ (hair-cutting, hair-dressing, scattering). (various references)

Korean 

산재하�" (Sporadical). (various references)

Manx

tiark (few, rare, scanty, scarce, short, sparse, tight, tight of money), thollaneagh (dizzy, giddy, heady, vertiginous). (various references)

Pig Latin

oradicspay

Portuguese

esporádico (snatchy), raro (close, exquisite, infrequent, out-and-out, rare, rose, scant, scanty, scarce, seldom, sparse, tight, uncommon, unique, unusual, unwonted). (various references)

Romanian

sporadic (sporadically). (various references)

Russian 

спорадический, единичный (unit, unitary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sporadičan, mestimičan (scattered). (various references)

Spanish

esporádico. (various references)

Swedish

sporadisk (episodic, odd). (various references)

Turkish

tek tük (here and there, odd, stray), aralıklı (discontinuous, episodic, fitful, intermittent, scattered, spaced-out, sparse, spasmodic), arada sırada görülen, ara sıra olan (occasional, snatchy). (various references)

Ukrainian

спорадичний (sporadical). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rời rạc (desultory, fragmentary, incohesive, rigmarole, sporadical, straggling, straggly, unconnected), lác đác thỉnh thoảng (sporadical), không thường xuyên (far-between, infrequent, sporadical). (various references)

sporadikos. (various references)

sporadicus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sporadic": sporadically. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sporadic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paradjik, Pogradec, Saperavi, separovic, sparadic, Sporades, sporatic, sporradic. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: picadors.

-1 letter: parodic, picador, picaros, prosaic, sarcoid, sparoid.

-2 letters: aroids, cairds, capris, capsid, copras, darics, picaro, psocid, radios, rapids, scoria, sparid.

-3 letters: acids, acrid, adios, apods, aroid, asdic, aspic, cadis, caids, caird, capos, cards, carpi, carps, codas, coirs, copra, cords, coria, corps, craps, crisp, crops, daric, dipso, disco, dopas, dorps, dorsa, drips, drops, orcas, padis.

+1 letter: dropsical, picadores, rhapsodic.

+2 letters: chipboards, clipboards, parodistic, picofarads, predacious, prosodical, scorpaenid, sporicidal.

+3 letters: aphrodisiac, brachiopods, caparisoned, caryopsides, comradeship, diastrophic, discography, duplicators, harpsichord, periodicals, rhapsodical, scorpaenids.

+4 letters: aphrodisiacs, branchiopods, cardiographs, comradeships, decapitators, demographics, deprecations, depreciators, diaphoretics, dictatorship, dimercaprols, dipterocarps, discographer, discographic, harpsichords, orthopaedics, postcardlike, predications, proboscidean, proboscidian, prosodically, ropedancings, sporadically.

+5 letters: anaphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, cardiopathies, commandership, depreciations, dictatorships, discographers, discographies, endoparasitic, hypochondrias, perissodactyl, predominances, privatdocents, proboscideans, proboscidians, propaedeutics, quadraphonics, quadriphonics, quasiperiodic, radioisotopic, rhapsodically.