burstwise

English

Etymology

burst +‎ -wise

Adjective

burstwise (not comparable)

1. Taking place in bursts.
   • 1966, Roger Sperry, Mind, Brain and Humanist Values:

     Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. […] And they also interact with the external surroundings to produce in toto a burstwise advance in evolution that is far beyond anything to hit the evolutionary scene yet, including the emergence of the living cell.

Anagrams

• subwrites