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Definition of Random
Ran´dom Pronunciation: răn´dŭm | n. | 1. | Force; violence. | | 2. | A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; - commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard. | | 3. | Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball. | | 4. | (Mining) The direction of a rake-vein. | | a. | 1. | Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess. | | 2. | (Statistics) of, pertaining to, or resulting from a process of selection from a starting set of items, in which the probability of selecting any one object in the starting set is equal to the probability of selecting any other. | | 3. | (Construction) of unequal size or shape; made from components of unequal size or shape. |
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