randomness
noun[U]
uk/ˈræn.dəm.nəs/us/ˈræn.dəm.nəs/thequalityof beingrandom(=happening, done, orchosenbychanceratherthanaccordingto aplan):
The randomness andbrutalityof thekillingsisshocking.
No one woulddenytheimportanceofcircumstanceand randomness inlife.
- The randomness of eachbatchofDNAmakesitsmeaningimpossibletocrack.
- Youmanagethe randomness by makingchoicesbasedon thepotentialrisk.
- Engineers are nowexploringtheroleof randomness inperformanceenhancementoftheirproducts.
Chance and randomness
- accident
- aleatory
- arbitrarily
- arbitrariness
- arbitrary
- even-money
- fluke
- fluky
- fortuitous
- fortuitously
- long shot
- luck
- luck intosomething
- more by accident than designidiom
- more by luck than judgmentidiom
- randomize
- randomized
- randomly
- serendipitous
- stumble intosomething