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English
Etymology
From random + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
randomly (comparative more randomly, superlative most randomly)
- In a random manner.
I just randomly remembered this dream from 2 years ago.
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner.
2020 June 6, Alan Bernal, “Overwatch gets crazy minigames with epic WarioWare-inspired mod”, in Dexerto[1], archived from the original on 3 October 2026:Every microgame lasts five seconds until it shifts to the next randomly selected ruleset.
- (computing) By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.
1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 314:When a file is accessed randomly, the programmer must specify the relative record number.
Derived terms
Translations
- Arabic: عَشْوَائِيًّا (ʕašwāʔiyyan)
- Catalan: aleatòriament (ca), a l'atzar
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 随机 (suíjī)
- Danish: tilfældigt, vilkårligt
- Finnish: satunnaisesti (fi), sattumanvaraisesti (fi)
- French: en vrac (fr), par hasard (fr), accidentellement (fr)
- Galician: ó chou (gl), a eito, aleatoriamente (gl)
- German: zufällig (de)
- Greek: τυχαία (el) (tychaía)
- Hindi: यदृच्छया (hi) (yadŕcchayā), यादृच्छिकतः (yādŕcchiktaḥ)
- Latin: temere (la)
- Occitan: a l'azard (oc) (Languedoc), a l'asard (oc) (Limousin)
- Polish: losowo (pl), przypadkowo (pl)
- Portuguese: aleatoriamente, ao acaso (pt)
- Slovak: náhodne
- Spanish: al azar, alrandon (U.S.), a voleo (es), al voleo
- Turkish: rastgele (tr)
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