erratic
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[edit] English
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- Rhymes: -ætɪk
[edit] Adjective
erratic (comparative more erratic, superlative most erratic)
- unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent
- Henry has been getting erratic scores on his tests: 40% last week, but 98% this week.
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unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent
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[edit] Noun
erratic (plural erratics)
- (geology) A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 372:
- The term for a displaced boulder is an erratic, but in the nineteenth century the expression seemed to apply more often to the theories than to the rocks.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 372:
- Anything that has erratic characteristics.
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rock
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