adj.
- made, done, or happening without method or conscious decision.
▸Brit. informal rather strange; odd.
- Statistics governed by or involving equal chances for each item.
- (of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape.
Derivative
- randomization
or randomisation n. - randomize
or randomise v. - randomly adv.
- randomness n.
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘impetuous headlong rush’): from OFr. randon ‘great speed’, from randir ‘gallop’, from a Gmc root shared by rand2.