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ran⋅dom

  [ran-duhm]
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–adjective
1. proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
2. Statistics. of or characterizing a process of selection in which each item of a set has an equal probability of being chosen.
3. Building Trades.
a. (of building materials) lacking uniformity of dimensions: random shingles.
b. (of ashlar) laid without continuous courses.
c. constructed or applied without regularity: random bond.
–noun
4. Chiefly British. bank 3 (def. 7b).
–adverb
5. Building Trades. without uniformity: random-sized slates.
—Idiom
6. at random, without definite aim, purpose, method, or adherence to a prior arrangement; in a haphazard way: Contestants were chosen at random from the studio audience.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME raundon, random < OF randon, deriv. of randir to gallop < Gmc

Related forms:
ran⋅dom⋅ly, adverb
ran⋅dom⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. haphazard, chance, fortuitous.
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ran·dom   (rān'dəm)   
adj.  
  1. Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective: random movements. See Synonyms at chance.
  2. Mathematics & Statistics Of or relating to a type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.
  3. Of or relating to an event in which all outcomes are equally likely, as in the testing of a blood sample for the presence of a substance.

[From at random, by chance, at great speed, from Middle English randon, speed, violence, from Old French, from randir, to run, of Germanic origin.]
ran'dom·ly adv., ran'dom·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Randomly

Ran"dom*ly\, adv. In a random manner.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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