LekhoriLekhoriA roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
Still take advice ; though counsels, when they fly / At random, sometimes hit most happily.
Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
they were messagers vnto kyng Ban & Bors sent from kynge Arthur / therfor said the viij knyghtes ye shalle dye or be prysoners / for we ben knyghtes of kyng Claudas And therwith two of them dressid theire sperys / and Vlfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres and ranne to gyder with grete raundon
The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.
Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random.
Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable.
Our city is plagued by random acts of violence.
From earlier randon, from Middle English randoun, raundon, from Old French randon, from randir (“to run, gallop”) (whence French randonnée (“long walk, hike”)), from Frankish *randiju (“a run, race”) ...
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Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.
Near-synonyms: aleatory, stochastic
Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
The rand function generates a random number from a seed.