Usually means: Occurring at irregular, infrequent intervals.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word sporadic:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sporadic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sporadic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sporadic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sporadic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sporadic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sporadic, sporadic: Wordnik
  7. sporadic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sporadic: Wiktionary
  9. sporadic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sporadic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sporadic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sporadic: Dictionary.com
  13. sporadic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sporadic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sporadic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sporadic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sporadic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sporadic: Rhymezone
  19. sporadic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sporadic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sporadic: Free Dictionary
  22. sporadic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sporadic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. sporadic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. sporadic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sporadic: Legal dictionary

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sporadic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. sporadic: Medical dictionary
  6. Sporadic: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sporadic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sporadically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (archaic) (of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
adjective:  Rare and scattered in occurrence.
adjective:  Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.

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