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satunnainen, sattumanvarainen
A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
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- Counsels, when they fly / At random, sometimes hit most happily.
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- O, many a shaft, at random sent, / Finds mark the archer little meant!
puhekieltä speed Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force. (defdate)
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- they were messagers vnto kyng Ban & Bors sent from kynge Arthur / therfor said the viij knyghtes ye shalle dye or be prysoners / for we ben knyghtes of kyng Claudas And therwith two of them dressid theire sperys / and Vlfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres and ranne to gyder with grete raundon
- For courageously the two kings newly fought with great random and force.
puhekieltä The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range. (defdate)
1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, page 144:
- Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random.
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puhekieltä An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence. (defdate)
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puhekieltä Someone who is not good.
puhekieltä The direction of a rake-vein.
Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
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The flip of a fair coin is purely random.
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The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.
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The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
puhekieltä Of or relating to probability distribution.
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A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased.
puhekieltä pseudorandom Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
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The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
puhekieltä representative Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
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A random American off the street couldnt tell the difference.''
puhekieltä apropos Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause{{, or reason.
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That was a completely random comment.
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The teachers bartending story was interesting, but random.''
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The narrative takes a random course.
puhekieltä Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
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Youre so random!''
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