random pattern

collocation in English

meaningsofrandomandpattern

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random
adjective
uk
/ˈræn.dəm/us
/ˈræn.dəm/
happening, done, or chosen by chance rather than according to ...
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pattern
noun
uk
/ˈpæt.ən/us
/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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(Definition ofrandomandpatternfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These formed an apparentlyrandompattern.
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Females showed a uniform pattern of space use, whereas males showed arandompattern.
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There still remains the question of the interaction of therandompatternof weak shock waves outside the shear layer, but that is another story.
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They concluded that the impact of maternal environment accounted for most of the differences in dormancy, and that the investigated species have arandompatternof variation in dormancy level.
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These mature trees are planted in arandompatternreminiscent of a computer printed circuits.
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On the sides the stonework reverts to a morerandompattern.
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Arandompatternof dashes was applied in places to improve the camouflage effect.
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Arandompatternof 14 red and blue squares will then appear in front of them.
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Arandompatternof green dashes, called raindrops, was applied in places to improve the camouflage effect.
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As a result, leap weeks are spread across the 400-year cycle in a complex, seeminglyrandompattern.
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Its exterior features include warmly colored panels inrandompatterncombined with glass and steel finishes for a modern touch.
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These sponges have a skeleton consisting of dense bundles of spicules occurring in a more or lessrandompattern.
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It then generates a temporally coherent mesh by tracking an invisiblerandompatternfluorescent makeup that is applied to the capture surface.
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The variety of intortus clouds is specific to cirrus clouds, and they appear as interwound strands of cirrus clouds with a purelyrandompattern.
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However, considered by itself, a component image reveals no information about the original image; it is indistinguishable from arandompatternof / pairs.
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The skin is densely covered by thin, needle-like dermal denticles in arandompattern, except for the lips and the tips of the fins.
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Rather than predictably rounding up or down in a repeating pattern, it is possible to round up or down in arandompattern.
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Approximately 175 graves have been identified at the cemetery, of which 125 are in the western half, in an apparentlyrandompattern.
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The study showed that those with employment lasting for a firm duration than those withrandompatternof employments has a stronger self-efficiency.
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These are massive, amorphous sponges with clearly separated inner and outer skeletons consisting of bundles of spicules arranged in a seeminglyrandompattern.
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