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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
random/ˈrandəm/
▶adjective
- 1 made, done, or happening without method or conscious decision.
■ Brit. informal rather strange; odd.
- 2 Statistics governed by or involving equal chances for each item.
- 3 (of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape.
– derivatives
randomization (or randomisation) noun,
randomize (or randomise) verb,
randomly adverb,
randomness noun.
randomization (or randomisation) noun,
randomize (or randomise) verb,
randomly adverb,
randomness noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘impetuous headlong rush’): from OFr. randon ‘great speed’, from randir ‘gallop’, from a Gmc root shared by rand2.
'random' also found in these Oxford entries:
aleatory
- arbitrary
- bric-a-brac
- Brownian motion
- chaos
- DRAM
- DVD-RW
- Ernie
- flitter
- fruit machine
- geomancy
- happy
- hat
- heat
- hit
- indiscriminate
- lot
- lottery
- lucky dip
- noiseless
- noisy
- normal distribution
- nouveau roman
- percentile
- pink noise
- potshot
- RAM
- randan
- random access
- random error
- random walk
- rover
- scatter
- scattergun
- significance
- sortilege
- SRAM
- stochastic
- wheel
- wilding
- word salad
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random applause
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at random
at random
at random/ hit and miss
Don't show up at any old (random) time.
existence itself is too random?
I can't go through security without a random selection
Miscellaneous meanderings and random ramblings around the topic of lazy English
mojibake or random codes?
random
random applause
Random but in a pattern?
random conversation
random drug testing - random is adjective or adverb?
random laugh
random luckiness
random speculations
random visitors
someone by random chance
That's so random!
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