Usually means: Lacking pattern, order, or predictability.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. random: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. random: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. random: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. random: Collins English Dictionary
  5. random: Vocabulary.com
  6. Random, random: Wordnik
  7. random: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. random: Wiktionary
  9. random: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. random: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. random: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. random: Dictionary.com
  13. random: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. random: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Random (G-Eazy song), Random (Lady Sovereign song), Random (album), Random (band), Random (comics), Random (disambiguation), Random (musician), Random (software), Random: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Random: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. random: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. random: Rhymezone
  19. random: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. random: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Random: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Random: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. random: Free Dictionary
  24. random: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. random: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. random: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. random: Glossary of research economics
  2. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  3. random: Legal dictionary
  4. random: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. random: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Random: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. random: Hacking Lexicon
  4. random: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Random: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  5. random: Medical dictionary
  6. Random: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Random: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. random: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Random: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Random (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. random, random, random: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. random (name): Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
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.

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