randomly

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[1]:
      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.

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