ALL meanings of randomness
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R r - noun Technical meaning of randomness 1. An inexplicable misfeature; gratuitous inelegance. 2. A hack or crock that depends on a complex combination of coincidences (or, possibly, the combination upon which the crock depends for its accidental failure to malfunction). "This hack can output characters 40--57 by putting the character in the four bit accumulator field of an XCT and then extracting six bits - the low 2 bits of the XCT opcode are the right thing." "What randomness!" 3. Of people, synonymous with "flakiness". The connotation is that the person so described is behaving weirdly, incompetently, or inappropriately for reasons which are (a) too tiresome to bother inquiring into, (b) are probably as inscrutable as quantum phenomena anyway, and (c) are likely to pass with time. "Maybe he has a real complaint, or maybe it's just randomness. See if he calls back." 1
- adjective randomness proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers. 1
- adjective randomness Statistics. of or characterizing a process of selection in which each item of a set has an equal probability of being chosen. 1
- adjective randomness Building Trades. (of building materials) lacking uniformity of dimensions: random shingles. (of ashlar) laid without continuous courses. constructed or applied without regularity: random bond. 1
- adjective randomness Slang. unknown, unidentified, or suspiciously out of place: A couple of random guys showed up at the party. odd or unpredictable, often in an amusing way: my totally random life. 1
- noun randomness something that is random, or a random state or condition: different statistical methods used to estimate randoms. 1
- noun randomness Slang. a person or thing that is unknown, unidentified, or suspiciously out of place. a person or thing that is odd or unpredictable. 1
- noun randomness Chiefly British. bank3 (def 7b). 1
- adverb randomness Building Trades. without uniformity: random-sized slates. 1
- idioms randomness at random, without definite aim, purpose, method, or adherence to a prior arrangement; in a haphazard way: Contestants were chosen at random from the studio audience. 1