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Erratic   /ɪrˈætɪk/   Listen
adjective
Erratic  adj.  
1.
Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. "The earth and each erratic world."
2.
Deviating from a wise of the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; strange; queer; as, erratic conduct.
3.
Irregular; changeable. "Erratic fever."
Erratic blocks, Erratic gravel, etc. (Geol.), masses of stone which have been transported from their original resting places by the agency of water, ice, or other causes.
Erratic phenomena, the phenomena which relate to transported materials on the earth's surface.


noun
Erratic  n.  
1.
One who deviates from common and accepted opinions; one who is eccentric or preserve in his intellectual character.
2.
A rogue. (Obs.)
3.
(Geol.) Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder. Note: In the plural the term is applied especially to the loose gravel and stones on the earth's surface, including what is called drift.





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"Erratic" Quotes from Famous Books



... in bringing proofs of the new science before the commission. These were M. de Foissac, M. Dupotet, M. Chapelain, and M. de Geslin. It would be but an unprofitable, and by no means a pleasant task to follow the commissioners in their erratic career, as they were led hither and thither by the four lights of magnetism above mentioned; the four "Wills-o'-the-Wisp" which dazzled the benighted and bewildered doctors on that wide and shadowy region of metaphysical inquiry — the influence of mind over matter. It will be better to ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
... we found the idea amusing, therefore our payment. One of our editors will work your manuscript into less-erratic ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... was at the back of the church. Always it had one occupant; sometimes it had three. But the behavior of this pew was very erratic. Sometimes an elderly and portly gentleman with white hair and fierce eyebrows would come in when the sermon was almost over. Again, a hand would reach through the grill behind it, and a tall young man who had had his eyes fixed in the proper direction, ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... (Fig. 38).—Erratic chancre is the term applied by Jonathan Hutchinson to the primary lesion of syphilis when it appears on parts of the body other than the genitals. It differs in some respects from the hard chancre as met with on the penis; it is usually larger, the induration is more diffused, ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
... they are of a strong character and break their fetters, they become a mark for the society which has not succeeded in reducing them to commonplace, to point at with solemn warning, as 'wild,' 'erratic,' and the like; much as if one should complain of the Niagara river for not flowing smoothly between its banks ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


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