A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it
You can refer to an event or a short period of time as an episode if you want to suggest that it is important or unusual, or has some particular quality. This episode is bound to be a deep embarrassment for Washington Unfortunately it was a rather sordid episode of my life
In Rosenberg's terminology [449], the acteme is an extremely low-level unit of activity, such as following a link Multiple actemes are combined into an intermediate level unit, which he calls the episode, and at the high end he sees a unit called the session
(3 syl ) is the Greek epieis-odos (coming in besides - i e adventitious), meaning an adventitious tale introduced into the main story In music, an intermediate passage in a fugue, whereby the subject is for a time suspended "In ordinary fugues it is usual to allow a certain number of bars to intervene from time to time, after which the subject is resumed The intervening bars are called Episodes " - Ouseley: Counterpoint, xxii 169 Epistle is something sent to another A letter sent by messenger or post (Greek, epi-stello )
In CMM, a recognized communication routine that has boundaries and rules-a recurrent language game
Interlude or intermediate section in the Baroque fugue, which serves as an area of relaxation between statements of the subject
In asthma, a period of markedly worsened symptoms This may be brought on by exposure to a known trigger or by an upper respiratory infection (a cold), or it may not have a known explanation An episode may come on all of a sudden or may develop gradually over days Asthma episodes, at their worst, can be life-threatening, and should always be taken seriously
An episode of an illness is short period in which a person who suffers from it is affected by it particularly badly. = attack
The relationship between a subject and a health related event; for infectious diseases, vaccine-associated adverse events and immunization it is the combination of a person and the event Period in which a health problem or illness exists, from its onset to resolution (Epi dictionary)
An episode of something such as a series on radio or television or a story in a magazine is one of the separate parts in which it is broadcast or published. The final episode will be shown next Sunday. = instalment
Series of consecutive sequences of the same stage of sleep (e g , REM, stage 2) or the same state (e g , waking or sleeping), which may be interrupted for a short time by another stage or state (e g , REM episode)
film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
A subsidiary section in a piece of music In a fugue, for example, it is a section that takes place between entries of the subject, whie in a rondo, it is a contrasting section between repetitions of the main theme