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ALL meanings of random walk

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  • noun random walk Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly. 1
  • noun random walk Physics. the tendency of particles in random motion to achieve a net displacement or to drift in a particular direction. 1
  • noun random walk a mathematical model used to describe physical processes, such as diffusion, in which a particle moves in straight-line steps of constant length but random direction 0
  • noun random walk a route consisting of successive and connected steps in which each step is chosen by a random mechanism uninfluenced by any previous step 0
  • noun random walk a sequence of movements in which the direction of each successive move is determined entirely at random 0
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