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Meanings

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noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', na-adjective

Describes things that are not continuous but occur or are placed with gaps in between. Often used adverbially as 飛び飛びに.

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The buses come at irregular intervals.

彼かれは飛とび飛とびにしか学がっ校こうに来こない。

He only comes to school sporadically.

〈物もの〉が飛とび飛とびになるfor something to become scattered/spread out with gaps
出しゅっ席せき者しゃの席せきが飛とび飛とびになってしまった。
The attendees' seats ended up scattered with gaps between them.
飛とび飛とびに〈動どう詞し〉to do something intermittently, with gaps in between
忙いそがしくて、飛とび飛とびにしか勉べん強きょうできなかった。
I was so busy that I could only study on and off.
飛とび飛とびの〈事こと〉patchy, disconnected (knowledge, memory, information, etc.)
彼かれの説せつ明めいは飛とび飛とびの知ち識しきに基もとづいていて分わかりにくい。

断だん続ぞく的てき
断続的 describes something that stops and starts repeatedly, while 飛び飛び emphasizes irregular gaps or scattered placement without implying a rhythmic pattern.
まばらN1
まばら describes things that are sparse or thinly spread out in space, whereas 飛び飛び focuses on gaps or intervals between occurrences, whether in space or time.
散さん在ざい
散在 is a more formal, noun-based term for things scattered here and there in a location, while 飛び飛び is a broader adjectival word covering both spatial and temporal gaps.
一ひとつ置おきN2
飛び飛び describes things scattered or spaced out irregularly, whereas 一つ置き specifies a regular pattern of skipping exactly one item.

連れん続ぞくN3
連続 means continuous or unbroken, the direct opposite of 飛び飛び, which describes something occurring with gaps or intervals.

Reduplication of the verb stem 飛び (tobi, 'jumping'), literally 'jumping and jumping', giving the sense of skipping or occurring with gaps.

His explanation was hard to follow because it was based on patchy knowledge.