Meanings (ES + gloss)
aleatorio • azaroso • estocástico
Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable.
Our city is plagued by random acts of violence.
random acts of kindness
aleatorio • azaroso • estocástico
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.
Near-synonyms: aleatory, stochastic
The flip of a fair coin is purely random.
pseudoaleatorio • pseudoazaroso • pseudoestocástico
Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
aleatorio • azaroso • estocástico • random (rándom)
Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected.
Thank you for that completely random comment... now, let's get back to our actual topic of discussion.
This random guy just came up to me to say that he was a fan of my work.
Phrases
Fischer random chessat randombi-randomdynamic random access memoryhypergeometric random variablelolrandomnon-randomnon-volatile random access memorynonrandomnormal random variableprogrammed random occurrencepseudorandomquasirandomrandorandom accessrandom access memoryrandom act of kindnessrandom campingrandom encounterrandom forestrandom functionrandom glucoserandom neural networkrandom numberrandom number generatorrandom number godrandom processrandom samplerandom seedrandom sequencerandom telegraph noiserandom variablerandom walkrandom walkerrandom-accessrandom-access memoryrandom-ishrandom-likerandomerrandomicity
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