Term used, generally with a negative connotation, to describe a story which has no structural unity, whose parts don't unfold inevitably toward a focused climax.
One-trial learning involving distinct episodes, such as being an eyewitness to an accident. Such memories are notoriously malleable, influenced by subsequent events and the mistakes made in earlier recall attempts.
(See also ephemeral). A stream that is often one of the outer links of a drainage network and which contains flowing water only during and immediately after a rainstorm which may be fairly intense.
An episodic campaign or style of play features adventures that happen without relation to each other. Think of the Twilight Zone series or the original Star Trek.