nonrandom
adjective
(alsonon-random)uk/ˌnɒnˈræn.dəm/us/ˌnɑːnˈræn.dəm/happening, done, orchosenaccordingto aplanorsystem,ratherthan bychance:
Ibelievethat everything thathappensto us is nonrandom.
It was a non-randomsample, using onlypeoplefrom the Bengalicommunity.
- Thestudiesthat wererecordedin thedatabasewereselectedin a nonrandomfashion.
- Darwin coulddetecta nonrandomprocessthatallowedsomespeciestosurvivewhileothersperished.
- We cananalysethealgorithmtoseewhy theresultsit gives us are non-random.
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
- randomized
- randomly
- randomness
- serendipitous
- stumble intosomething