randomly

English

Etymology

From random +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹændm̩li/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adverb

randomly (comparative more randomly, superlative most randomly)

1. 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:

     Every microgame lasts five seconds until it shifts to the next randomly selected ruleset.

2. (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

• nonrandomly
• pseudorandomly
• quasirandomly
• semirandomly

Translations

in a random way

Arabic: عَشْوَائِيًّا (ʕašwāʔiyyan) Catalan: aleatòriament (ca), a l'atzar 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) Polish: losowo (pl), przypadkowo (pl) Portuguese: aleatoriamente, ao acaso (pt) Slovak: náhodne Spanish: al azar, aleatoriamente (es), alrandon (United States), estocásticamente, azarosamente Turkish: rastgele (tr)