sporadic

English

Alternative forms

• sporadick

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /spəˈrædɾɪk/, /spɔˈrædɾɪk/, X-SAMPA: /spO"r{dIk/
• (UK) IPA: /spəˈræd.ɪk/, /ˈspɔː(ɹ).æd.ɪk/, X-SAMPA: /sp@"r{d.Ik/, /"spO:(r).{d.Ik/

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• Rhymes: -ædɪk

Adjective

sporadic (comparative more sporadic, superlative most sporadic)

1. Rare and scattered in occurrence.
2. Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.

Derived terms

• sporadic E layer

Related terms

• sporadical
• sporadically
• sporadicalness

Translations

rare and scattered in occurrence

• Catalan: esporàdic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 零星 (cmn) (língxīng), 哩哩啦啦 (cmn) (līlīlālā), 偶爾發生的, 偶尔发生的 (ǒu'ěr fāshēng de), 無常 (cmn), 无常 (cmn) (wúcháng), 散亂 (cmn), 散乱 (cmn) (sànluàn)

• Danish: sporadisk (da)
• Dutch: sporadisch (nl)
• Finnish: harvinainen (fi), satunnainen (fi), sporadinen (fi)
• French: sporadique (fr)

• German: sporadisch (de)
• Indonesian: sporadis (id)
• Japanese: 散発的な (ja) (さんぱつてきな, sanpatsuteki na)
• Portuguese: esporádico (pt)
• Russian: спорадический (ru) (sporadíčeskij), единичный (ru) (jediníčnyj), случайный (ru) (slučájnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: спорадичан (sh), sporadičan (sh)
• Spanish: esporádico (es)
• Swedish: sporadisk (sv)

exhibiting random behaviour

• Catalan: esporàdic (ca)

• Finnish: satunnainen (fi), hajanainen (fi), sporadinen (fi)

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