erratically

erratic | American Dictionary

erratic
adjective
us/ɪˈræt̬·ɪk/
changing suddenly and unexpectedly:
an erratic schedule

erratic | Business English

erratic
adjective
uk /ɪˈrætɪk/us
something that is erratic is not regular, certain, or organized in its movement or behaviour:
The erratic behaviour of the stock market is making investors nervous.
Stocks closed up slightly after an erratic day of trading.

erratically

adverb
The stock market has been behaving erratically.

Examples of erratic

erratic
Imports of raw cotton only gradually took up the slack-and then only in quite erratic fashion.
One arose from strong vortex motions near the trailing edge of a device, and the other arose from erratic cross-stream movements of the flow pattern.
The mode amplitude eventually settles into a train of erratic oscillations.
For instance, the arrival of car-carrying ships is erratic and difficult to predict.
In general, both voiced and voiceless obstruents favor glide absence; where this is not the case, the pattern is erratic.
Here the concrete system was a radar circuit that exhibited erratic relaxation oscillations.
Other people may have more erratic growth records with their data points scattered widely from the underlying true trajectory.
The output-money models are only slightly better than the univariate models, and their event-probability forecasts from the late eighties onward are erratic.
Variability over time in the same individual looks erratic in some cases or inversely, looks as regular increase or decrease for weeks.
The difficulties in sustaining these initiatives due to staff turnover, and erratic fiscal and medical support are highlighted.
More importantly the weather becomes more erratic, increasing the risk of summer droughts and harvest failures.
Erratic choice non-deterministically chooses one if its arguments before evaluating the arguments.
The differences between middle and basal derived setts were erratic.
These erratic eye movements cause retinal slips providing motion signals that are directionally unbiased on the time scale of the control loop (;100 ms).
Votes on different issues are not uncorrelated; some coherence is ensured by ideology, which eliminates a large number of completely erratic combinations.
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