English-Italian translations for random

• aleatorio
  Qualsiasi confronto fra imprese o Stati sembra quindi un pò aleatorio. Any comparison between enterprises or between States thus appears somewhat random.
• casuale
  I recuperi non possono più essere gestiti in modo casuale come nel passato. Recoveries cannot continue in the same random fashion as in the past.
  Una situazione tanto grottesca non è, a nostro avviso, una scelta involontaria e casuale da parte dell'Unione. This incongruous situation is not, in my view, an inadvertent, random choice by the European Union.
  Del resto, l'elencazione di questi settori non è casuale. Vi sono infatti profonde differenze a livello di modalità d'impiego dei computer. These fields were not chosen at random, but because they vary in the way in which they use computers.
• estraneo
• fortuito
• nullità
• sconosciuto

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