English-Dutch translations for random

• aselect
• inconsequent
• lukraak
  De projecten worden te vaak lukraak in gang gezet. With the intake of new projects we are shooting randomly from the hip.
  Het is goed dat de Raad vorige week niet overhaast heeft beslist over lukraak bezuinigen of het uitsluiten van nieuwe lidstaten. It is a good thing that last week, the Council did not make any hasty decisions about random cutbacks or the exclusion of new Member States.
• toevallig
  Het geplande aantal munten is niet toevallig gekozen. The number of coins planned was obviously not chosen at random.
  Overigens is de opsomming van deze terreinen niet toevallig, want het maakt verschil hoe de computers worden gebruikt. These fields were not chosen at random, but because they vary in the way in which they use computers.
  Mijnheer de Voorzitter, wij kunnen ons werk niet serieus doen als wij doen wat u voorstelt, maar ook niet als wij op toevallige meerderheden moeten rekenen. We cannot work seriously if we follow the procedure which you have suggested, Mr President; nor can we do so if we work here with random majorities.
• willekeurig
  Het zijn willekeurige voorbeelden. These are examples picked at random.
  Ik wil antwoorden op twee willekeurig gekozen opmerkingen. Let me respond to a couple of remarks chosen at random.
  Het besluit tot uitzetting is in ieder geval geen willekeurige daad. In any case, the decision to evict them is not a random act.

Definition of random

• A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance
• Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
• The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.
• An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
• The direction of a rake-vein
• Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation
• Of or relating to probability distribution
• Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection
• Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason
• Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason
• Characterized by or often saying ''random'things; habitually using non sequiturs

Examples

• The party was boring. It was full of randoms
• 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.
• A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased.
• The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
• A random American off the street couldnt tell the difference.
• That was a completely random comment.
• The teachers bartending story was interesting, but random.
• The narrative takes a random course.
• Youre so random!

Related words

• randomly
• randomize
• randomness
• randomized
• randomise
• pseudorandom
• pseudorandomness
• randomizer
• pseudo-random