episodic

The storytelling is done mostly in episodic glimpses, with few conventional dialogue scenes, so the film comes to feel like the fragments of a memory.

Researchers measured how much detail participants included when describing their episodic autobiographical memories.

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.