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A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.

(obsolete) Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.

📑 Synonyms: force momentum speed velocity

(obsolete) The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.

(figuratively, colloquial) An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.

📑 Synonyms: rando nobody nonentity

(mining) The direction of a rake-vein.

(printing, historical) A frame for composing type.

Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.

📑 Synonyms: aleatory stochastic

(mathematics) Of or relating to probability distribution.

📑 Synonyms: stochastic

(computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.

📑 Synonyms: pseudorandom

(somewhat colloquial) Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.

📑 Synonyms: average typical

(somewhat colloquial) Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.

📑 Synonyms: arbitrary unexpected unplanned

(colloquial) Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.

(UK, slang) Being out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected; odd, strange, bizarre.