English-Finnish translations for random

• satunnainen
  Häätöä koskeva päätös ei ollut kuitenkaan satunnainen teko. In any case, the decision to evict them is not a random act.
  Antibioottien satunnainen käyttö maataloudessa on tai on ollut yleistä kaikilla tiloilla, sekä isoilla että pienillä. The random use of antibiotics in agriculture is - or has been - common to all farming, be it large or small.
  Ensinnäkin ihmisryhmien satunnainen valitseminen henkilötietojen keräämiseksi on laitonta niin yleisesti ottaen kuin Italian perustuslain mukaan. Firstly, randomly selecting groups of people in order to collect personal information about them is unlawful, both generally and under the Italian Constitution.
• asiaankuulumaton
• irrallinen
  Lauseeseen liittyvä irrallinen huomautus erotetaan usein pilkkujen sijasta molemmin puolin ajatusviivalla.
  Irrallinen johto roikkui pöydänreunalla.
  irrallinen kommentti
• näennäissatunnainen
• sattumanvarainen
  Lopuksi on vielä kysymys sairaaloiden ja sosiaalisen asuntotuotannon vapauttamisesta, mikä on meidänkin mielestämme melko sattumanvarainen valinta. Lastly, there is the issue about exempting hospitals and social housing, which we, too, regard as a rather random selection.
  Tämä ei ole sattumanvarainen kokoelma hajanaisia hankkeita, vaan sen johtavana ajatuksena on aina sama seikka: kansalaisten konkreettisiin vaatimuksiin vastaaminen ja heidän eduistaan huolehtiminen. These are not a random collection of disparate items. They are linked by the constant guiding principle that our action must meet the practical needs of Europe's citizens and protect their interests.
• tavallinen
  Otan sen tavallisen.
• tavis
  Mitäs me tavikset siihen sanomme?

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