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arbitrarily

adv

Etymology

From arbitrary + -ly.

  1. derived from arbitrārius — “arbitrary, uncertain”
  2. inherited from arbitrarie
  3. formed as arbitrarily — “arbitrary + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In an arbitrary manner.

    • The winner was chosen arbitrarily.
    • Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”

  2. To an arbitrary degree.

    • an arbitrarily large number

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at arbitrarily. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at arbitrarily. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at arbitrarily

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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