episodic

The study revealed that subduction zones don't fail in one catastrophic break but die in stages, through a process known as "episodic" or "piecewise" termination.

“As the spending stream starts to diminish, you could have more rocks exposed, and the more likely you’ll get episodic bankruptcies,” Bethune said.

They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic.

She also stars in an episodic film called “Theater” by the New Theater Hollywood, another Made in L.A. participant this year.

The sense of fragmented experience carried over into his plan, which never resolved itself into a strong spatial order but is loose and episodic.