Episodic
adjective
Relating to or consisting of different separate parts or events.
My memory is quite episodic. I remember odd things about events but not the whole story.
Often appears as...
- episodic memory
- episodic events
adjective
Happening occasionally and at irregular intervals.
His episodic use of this office suite makes his familiarity with its more advanced features doubtful.
Often appears as...
- episodic use
- episodic attendance
adjective
In a film, book, or play that is organized into separate parts that are not connected.
The novel has an episodic structure, following the protagonist’s travels around the country.
Often appears as...
- episodic novel
- episodic structure
Usage tips
Literary
adjective
Relating to or consisting of different separate parts or events.
My memory is quite episodic. I remember odd things about events but not the whole story.
Often appears as...
- episodic memory
- episodic events
adjective
Happening occasionally and at irregular intervals.
His episodic use of this office suite makes his familiarity with its more advanced features doubtful.
Often appears as...
- episodic use
- episodic attendance
adjective
In a film, book, or play that is organized into separate parts that are not connected.
The novel has an episodic structure, following the protagonist’s travels around the country.
Often appears as...
- episodic novel
- episodic structure
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Not Continuous
Use 'episodic' when you want to express that something happens in distinct parts or events rather than continuously.
Her journal entries are episodic, capturing moments from different days without a continuous narrative.
Pro Tip 2/2Partial Recollection
'Episodic' can describe a way of remembering that focuses on specific moments rather than the whole experience.
My childhood memories are episodic; I recall birthdays vividly but not the days in between.
Pro Tip 1/2Not Continuous
Use 'episodic' when you want to express that something happens in distinct parts or events rather than continuously.
Her journal entries are episodic, capturing moments from different days without a continuous narrative.
Pro Tip 2/2Partial Recollection
'Episodic' can describe a way of remembering that focuses on specific moments rather than the whole experience.
My childhood memories are episodic; I recall birthdays vividly but not the days in between.
Pro Tip 1/2Not Continuous
Use 'episodic' when you want to express that something happens in distinct parts or events rather than continuously.
Her journal entries are episodic, capturing moments from different days without a continuous narrative.
Pro Tip 2/2Partial Recollection
'Episodic' can describe a way of remembering that focuses on specific moments rather than the whole experience.
My childhood memories are episodic; I recall birthdays vividly but not the days in between.
Compare with
discontinuousfitfulfragmentaryintermittentoccasionalperiodicregularsporadic
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Daniel Kraft: How...
So part of the challenge in advancing global, local health are our models, our mindsets. We don't really practice health care. We practice sick care. Sick care is based on intermittent episodic data, usually only obtained within the four walls of the clinic or hospital bed,
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How Your Memory Works --...
So that's a semantic memory. That car is my yellow jeep and I don't recognize it. And then B, forgets that he drove there. So that's an episodic memory, a memory for what happened. So just a few minutes ago, I drove to the dump and now I don't remember that I did that.
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How Netflix changed...
And so that was the trigger to make us think, wow, you know, with episodic content, especially serialized, it's so powerful to have all the episodes at once. And it's something that linear TV can't do. And so both of those made it really positive.
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Didier Sornette: How we...
Perhaps more surprisingly, the same type of theory applies to biology and medicine, parturition, the act of giving birth, epileptic seizures. From seven months of pregnancy, a mother starts to feel episodic precursory contractions of the uterus
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Anil Seth: How your...
Just as there are many different aspects of selfhood, there are many different kinds of memory, too. I think colloquially, in everyday language, when we talk about memory, we often talk about autobiographical memory or episodic memory,
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Simon Lewis: Don't take...
suffer episodic headaches. Fifteen percent suffer migraines that wipe them out for days on end. All of this is leading -- computer addiction, just to cover the most frequent thing we do is use digital devices. The average teenager
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How I'm using biological...
and tells me which narrative ingredients are more likely to lead to engagement in altruistic behavior rather than distress and apathy. The more imprints added to the database across mediums from episodic television to games,
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A personal health coach...
it's a different world, but it was déjà vu all over again. As doctors, we see our patients who have chronic illnesses in an episodic way. In between, the patients have to learn how to make a lot of decisions for themselves.
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The secret weapon...
They did it early, they did a lot of it, and by the way, even though they're reopening their society, and they're beginning to see episodic surges, they then go back to those basic public health practices
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Watch: Shipwreck Hunter...
it's amazing not savant this is fine but then here's not we're in the crater of a episodic reactive volcano
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Daniel Kraft: How...
So part of the challenge in advancing global, local health are our models, our mindsets. We don't really practice health care. We practice sick care. Sick care is based on intermittent episodic data, usually only obtained within the four walls of the clinic or hospital bed,
Video examples
How Your Memory Works --...
So that's a semantic memory. That car is my yellow jeep and I don't recognize it. And then B, forgets that he drove there. So that's an episodic memory, a memory for what happened. So just a few minutes ago, I drove to the dump and now I don't remember that I did that.
Video examples
How Netflix changed...
And so that was the trigger to make us think, wow, you know, with episodic content, especially serialized, it's so powerful to have all the episodes at once. And it's something that linear TV can't do. And so both of those made it really positive.
Video examples
Didier Sornette: How we...
Perhaps more surprisingly, the same type of theory applies to biology and medicine, parturition, the act of giving birth, epileptic seizures. From seven months of pregnancy, a mother starts to feel episodic precursory contractions of the uterus
Video examples
Anil Seth: How your...
Just as there are many different aspects of selfhood, there are many different kinds of memory, too. I think colloquially, in everyday language, when we talk about memory, we often talk about autobiographical memory or episodic memory,
Video examples
Simon Lewis: Don't take...
suffer episodic headaches. Fifteen percent suffer migraines that wipe them out for days on end. All of this is leading -- computer addiction, just to cover the most frequent thing we do is use digital devices. The average teenager
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How I'm using biological...
and tells me which narrative ingredients are more likely to lead to engagement in altruistic behavior rather than distress and apathy. The more imprints added to the database across mediums from episodic television to games,
Video examples
A personal health coach...
it's a different world, but it was déjà vu all over again. As doctors, we see our patients who have chronic illnesses in an episodic way. In between, the patients have to learn how to make a lot of decisions for themselves.
Video examples
The secret weapon...
They did it early, they did a lot of it, and by the way, even though they're reopening their society, and they're beginning to see episodic surges, they then go back to those basic public health practices
Video examples
Watch: Shipwreck Hunter...
it's amazing not savant this is fine but then here's not we're in the crater of a episodic reactive volcano
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Sasha Roiz
Israeli Actor
With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors. Many details are found along the way. On 'Caprica,' although the franchise already existed, we were creating an entirely new world full of new characters.
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Rowan Atkinson
English Comedian
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.
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Charles McCarry
American Writer
I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.
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Zawe Ashton
English Actress
No-one tells you about being in episodic television and it ending. No-one tells you how painful it is. How bizarre it is when you've dedicated your life to one character for five years.
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James Roday
American Actor
I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.
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Jane Krakowski
American Actress
It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
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Sam Abell
American Photographer
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Jason Bateman
American Actor
I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
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Payal Rohatgi
Indian Actress
Laila' is very interesting and like Ram Gopal Varma's 'Darna Mana Hai,' it is episodic in nature.
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Peter Weller
American Actor
I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.
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Sasha Roiz
Israeli Actor
With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors. Many details are found along the way. On 'Caprica,' although the franchise already existed, we were creating an entirely new world full of new characters.
Quote examples
Rowan Atkinson
English Comedian
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.
Quote examples
Charles McCarry
American Writer
I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.
Quote examples
Zawe Ashton
English Actress
No-one tells you about being in episodic television and it ending. No-one tells you how painful it is. How bizarre it is when you've dedicated your life to one character for five years.
Quote examples
James Roday
American Actor
I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.
Quote examples
Jane Krakowski
American Actress
It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
Quote examples
Sam Abell
American Photographer
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
Quote examples
Jason Bateman
American Actor
I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
Quote examples
Payal Rohatgi
Indian Actress
Laila' is very interesting and like Ram Gopal Varma's 'Darna Mana Hai,' it is episodic in nature.
Quote examples
Peter Weller
American Actor
I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.
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