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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.Examples: "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 coragiouſly the two kynges newely foughte with great randon and force, they ſhewed their vigors and ſtrengthes and did ſo nobly that their coũter parties had none aduaũtage."Synonyms: force, momentum, speed, velocitycountableobsoleteuncountable
2. (obsolete) The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.Examples: "Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random."; "[…] the angle at which the miſſive is to mount by ( if we will have it go to its furtheſt randome ) muſt be the half of a right one […]"countableobsoleteuncountable
3. (figuratively, colloquial) An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.Examples: "The party was boring. It was full of randoms."Synonyms: rando, nobody, nonentitycolloquialcountablefigurativelyuncountable
4. (mining) The direction of a rake-vein.countableuncountable
5. (printing, historical) A frame for composing type.Examples: "Utilization of all floor space underneath case racks and randoms is another feature of the modern composing room; […]"; "Printers' frames and randoms"countablehistoricaluncountable
adj (English)
1. (statistics) 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.Examples: "Near-synonyms: aleatory, stochastic"; "The flip of a fair coin is purely random."; "The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers."
2. (computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.Examples: "The rand function generates a random number from a seed."
3. (informal) Selected for no particular reason; arbitrary; unspecified.Examples: "A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference."; "You're just going to trust the word of random people on the Internet?"; "I didn't have time to peruse the resturant's menu, so I just ordered some random dish."informal
4. (informal) Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous.Examples: "My notebook has turned into a random collection of thoughts."; "I brought a bunch of random snacks, but nothing nutritious."; "I mixed a bunch of random vegetables into a salad, and it actually turned out pretty good."informal
5. (informal) Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected.Examples: "This random guy just came up to me to say that he was a fan of my work."; "Thank you for that completely random comment... now, let's get back to our actual topic of discussion."; "The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but very random."informal
6. (informal) Of a person: characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.Examples: "You're so random! I never know what you're going to do next."informal
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, now uncommon) To wander; to stray; to meander.intransitiveuncommon
Definition source: Wiktionary