Meaning of episode

ep•i•sode

1. an incident in the course of a series of events, in a person's life or experience, etc.
2. an incident, scene, etc., within a narrative, usually fully developed and either integrated within the main story or digressing from it.
3. one of a number of loosely connected, but usually thematically related, scenes or stories constituting a literary work.
4. epeisodion.
5. an intermediate or digressive passage, esp. in a contrapuntal composition.
6. any one of the separate productions that constitute a serial.