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episodic

adj. limited in duration to a single episode; "an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers"

episodic

adj. of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together"

occasional

adj. occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches"

acting, interim

adj. performing services temporarily

passing, transient, ephemeral, short-lived, transitory

adj. lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

fly-by-night

adj. ephemeral; "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"

makeshift, improvised, jury-rigged

adj. done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"

temporal

adj. not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt

terminable

adj. capable of being terminated after a designated time; "terminable employees"; "a terminable annuity"

visiting, guest

adj. staying temporarily: "a visiting foreigner"; "guest conductor"

bicameral, two-chambered

adj. consisting of two chambers; "the bicameral heart of a fish"

bifid

adj. divided into two lobes; "a bifid petal"

bifurcate, branched, forked, biramous, pronged, prongy

adj. resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"

bifurcated

adj. divided into or made up of two parts; "socially bifurcated populations"

bilocular, biloculate

adj. divided into or containing two cells or chambers; "having a bilocular capsule"

bipartite, parted, dissected

adj. used esp. of leaves

chambered

adj. having compartmental chambers; "a spiral chambered seashell"

split, rent, cleft

adj. being divided or separated; "split between love and hate"

cleft, cloven, bisulcate

adj. used of hooves

compartmental, compartmentalized

adj. divided up into compartments or categories; "most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized"

dichotomous

adj. divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications

disjointed

adj. taken apart at the joints; "a disjointed fowl"

disjunct

adj. having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects

separate, disunited

adj. having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group"

metameric, segmental

adj. having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters

mullioned

adj. of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone; "mullioned windows"

partitioned, partitioned off

adj. divided by partitions

pronged, tined

adj. having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork"

sectional, sectioned

adj. consisting of or divided into sections; "a sectional sofa"; "sectioned plates"

separate, separated

adj. not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated"

split, in disagreement

adj. "opinions are divided"

subdivided

adj. divided again after a first division, e.g. of a tract of land, divided into lots

torn

adj. disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"

aleatory

adj. dependent on chance; "the aleatory element in life"

capricious, freakish

adj. changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"

unforeseeable

adj. incapable of being anticipated; "unforeseeable consequences"

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