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▸ noun: (obsolete) Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.
▸ noun: (figuratively, colloquial) An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
▸ noun: (mining) The direction of a rake-vein.
▸ noun: (printing, historical) A frame for composing type.
▸ adjective: Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable.
▸ adjective: (statistics) Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.
▸ adjective: (computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
▸ adjective: (informal) Selected for no particular reason; arbitrary; unspecified.
▸ adjective: (informal) Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous.
▸ adjective: (informal) Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected.
▸ adjective: (informal) Of a person: characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
▸ adjective: (UK, slang) Being out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected; odd, strange, bizarre.
▸ verb: (intransitive, now uncommon) To wander; to stray; to meander.
Similar:
haphazard,
hit-or-miss,
stochastic,
unselected,
Randon,
nonrandom,
arbitrary,
pseudorandom,
quasirandom,
oddball,
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random number,
random sample,
random variable,
random walk,
random process,
random matrix,
random graph,
random forest,
random walk model,
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