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noun

  1. 1

    A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.

  2. 2

    Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

  3. 3

    The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.

  4. 4

    An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.

    The party was boring. It was full of randoms.

  5. 5

    The direction of a rake-vein.

  6. 6

    A frame for composing type.

adjective

  1. 1

    Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable.

    Our city is plagued by random acts of violence.

    random acts of kindness

  2. 2

    Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.

    The flip of a fair coin is purely random.

    The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.

    The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.

  3. 3

    Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.

    The rand function generates a random number from a seed.

  4. 4

    Selected for no particular reason; arbitrary; unspecified.

    A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.

    You're just going to trust the word of random people on the Internet?

    I didn't have time to peruse the resturant's menu, so I just ordered some random dish.

  5. 5

    Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous.

    My notebook has turned into a random collection of thoughts.

    I brought a bunch of random snacks, but nothing nutritious.

    I mixed a bunch of random vegetables into a salad, and it actually turned out pretty good.

  6. 6

    Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected.

    This random guy just came up to me to say that he was a fan of my work.

    Thank you for that completely random comment... now, let's get back to our actual topic of discussion.

    The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but very random.

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