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random

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1. random - Noun

2. random - Adjective

Meaning

Force; violence.

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.

Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.

The direction of a rake-vein.

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.

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a random choice Source: Internet

bombs fell at random Source: Internet

random movements Source: Internet

3D techniques have better sensitivity (because more coincidences are detected and used) and therefore less noise, but are more sensitive to the effects of scatter and random coincidences, as well as requiring correspondingly greater computer resources. Source: Internet

A basic property of this form of conditional entropy is that: : Mutual information (transinformation) Mutual information measures the amount of information that can be obtained about one random variable by observing another. Source: Internet

A blade ground from such a blank will show a grain much like an object cut from a block of wood, with similar random variations in pattern. Source: Internet

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