Random (song)
WordNet

adjective


(1)   Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
"A random choice"
"Bombs fell at random"
"Random movements"
(2)   Taken haphazardly
"A random choice"
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Etymology


From , from from }, see . Used in English since the 14th Century.

Noun



  1. Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.10:
      And therwith two of them dressid their sperys, and Ulfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres, and ranne to gyder with grete raundon.
  2. An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
    The party was boring. It was full of randoms.

Adjective



  1. All outcomes being unpredictable and, in the ideal case, equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
    The flip of a fair coin is purely random.
    The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.
    The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.
  2. Of or relating to probability distribution.
    A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased.
  3. Pseudorandom in contrast to truly random; mimicking the result of random selection.
    The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
  4. Representative and undistinguished; typical and average.
    A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
  5. Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.
    That was a completely random comment.
    The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but random.
    The narrative takes a random course.

Compounds

  • at random
  • randomnitude
  • randomology
  • randomosity
  • non-random
  • pseudorandom
  • random number
 
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