Usually means: Occurring at irregular, infrequent intervals.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word sporadic:

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

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

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. sporadic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sporadic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. sporadic: Medical dictionary
  7. 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.
adjective:  (mathematics) Not belonging to any infinite family; an exception to an otherwise orderly classification.

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