English-Swedish translations for random

• slumpmässig
  Det står klart att detta är en bättre övervakning än att mäta två gånger per år vid en slumpmässig tidpunkt.Needless to say, this is a more effective monitoring method than the random measurement method used twice a year.
  Inser kommissionen att 90 procent av folket inte vill köpa en slumpmässig rad fotbollsmatcher?Does the Commission appreciate that buying a random collection of football matches is not what 90% of people want?
  Det är bra att rådet inte tog några förhastade beslut om slumpmässig minskning eller uteslutning av nya medlemsstater förra veckan.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.
• slumpvis
  Det gör det möjligt för reklambyråer och kontaktbyråer att skicka reklambudskap till slumpvis genererade nummer.That enables all kinds of advertising agencies and dating agencies to advertise their services by sending messages to randomly generated numbers.
  De nämner aldrig skydd, även om EU:s handelsförsvarsinstrument är uppenbart olämpliga och används slumpvis.They never mention protection, even though the EU's trade defence instruments are manifestly inadequate and randomly used.
  De kommer att ha rätt att granska slumpvis utvalda stickprov för att se till att uppgifterna har tagits på ett sätt som är korrekt enligt avtalet.They will have the right to review random samples to ensure that the data has been taken in a way that is respected according to the agreement.

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