Adjective: random ran-dum
- Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
"random movements"; "a random choice"; "bombs fell at random"
- Representative and undistinguished; typical and average
"A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference"
- (statistics) given by a probability distribution rather than being deterministic
"The experiment used random sampling to ensure unbiased results"
See also: ergodic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, stochastic
Antonym: nonrandom
Encyclopedia: Random