episodic

adjective

ep·i·sod·ic | \ ˌe-pə-ˈsä-dik also -ˈzä-

variants: or less commonly episodical \ ˌe-pə-ˈsä-di-kəl also -ˈzä-

Definition of episodic

1 : made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes

2 : having the form of an episode

3 : of or limited in duration or significance to a particular episode : temporary may be able to establish whether the sea-floor spreading is continuous or episodic— A. I. Hammond

4 : occurring, appearing, or changing at usually irregular intervals : occasional an episodic illness

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Examples of episodic in a Sentence

the long novel was filmed for television as an episodic movie that was shown over the course of five evenings malaria is characterized by episodic attacks of chills and fever that coincide with mass destruction of blood cells

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This actually exacerbates the usual problems with episodic television. — Samantha Nelson, The Verge, "Season 2 of Runaways forges a bold new path — eventually," 21 Dec. 2018 Telltale Games, creators of episodic adventure games like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Batman: The Enemy Within, laid off a large number of its staff today. — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, "The Walking Dead studio Telltale hit with layoffs," 21 Sep. 2018 Each episodic adventure brings a new world (a planet where an Orville officer is worshiped as a god) or allegory (a society that metes out justice based on people’s reputation online). — John Jurgensen, WSJ, "‘The Orville’ and Its Vintage Vibe Fill the Void for Some ‘Star Trek’ Fans," 26 Dec. 2018 After all this time, the investigation has become a kind of episodic drama, a real-life police procedural that has so far cleared the names of a dozen people convicted of murder. — Alan Feuer, New York Times, "Another Brooklyn Murder Conviction Linked to Scarcella Is Reversed," 11 Jan. 2018 Meanwhile, other developers have picked up the idea of episodic gaming and run with it. — Andrew Webster, The Verge, "How The Walking Dead studio changed video game storytelling for the better," 24 Sep. 2018 Telltale Games, which was founded by several members of the team that worked on Sam & Max: Freelance Police for Lucas, acquired the rights to Sam & Max in 2005, and began publishing new games in an episodic format via GameTap. — Michael Thompson, Ars Technica, "Drawn together: The love affair between comics and games," 24 Dec. 2018 Photo: Bridgeman Images These titles and subtitles supply keynotes to Alexander’s story—essential ones, for absent such a key, the saga becomes both bewildering and tediously episodic. — James Romm, WSJ, "‘Soldier, Priest, and God’ Review: The Emperor Divine," 13 Dec. 2018 The pattern of gaming behavior may be continuous or episodic and recurrent. — German Lopez, Vox, "Video game addiction is real, rare, and poorly understood," 6 Dec. 2018

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