Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower
Sporadic occurrences of something happen at irregular intervals. a year of sporadic fighting over northern France continuous + sporadically spo·radi·cal·ly The distant thunder from the coast continued sporadically continuously. happening fairly often, but not regularly = intermittent (sporadicus, from , from sporaden )
Scheduling algorithm whereby a thread's priority can oscillate dynamically between a "foreground" or normal priority and a "background" or low priority A thread is given an execution budget of time to be consumed within a certain replenishment period See also adaptive, FIFO, and round robin
Cases of CJD that occur at random throughout the world are categorised as sporadic if they have no genetic mutation or any known iatrogenic infection