spurtive
adjEtymology From spurt + -ive.
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Occurring in spurts or short bursts.
- […] spurtive phenomenon cannot be captured in a simple time trend. Only the ratchet approach can adequately model the spurtive irregularity.2002, Raj Kumar Sen, Biswajit Chatterjee, Indian Economy, Agenda for the 21st Century, page 311:
- Derived terms
- spurtively