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Sporadic vs Ubiquitous - What's the difference?

sporadic | ubiquitous |

As adjectives the difference between sporadic and ubiquitous

is that sporadic is rare and scattered in occurrence while ubiquitous is being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

sporadic

English

Alternative forms

* sporadick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Rare and scattered in occurrence.
  • Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.

    • Derived terms

    * sporadic E layer

    Related terms

    * sporadical * sporadically * sporadicalness

    Anagrams

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    ubiquitous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
    • To Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Christians, God is ubiquitous.
  • Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
  • Widespread; very prevalent.

    • Quotations

    * 1851 — *: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous ; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. * 1927-1929' — *: I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

    Synonyms

    * (being everywhere ): omnipresent * (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time ): ever-present

    Derived terms

    * ubiquitously

    Related terms

    * ubiquarian * ubiquitin * ubiquity

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