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randomly

adv
/ˈɹændm̩li/

Etymology

From random + -ly.

  1. derived from *h₃er-✻
  2. derived from *randijō✻
  3. derived from rend — “a run, race”
  4. derived from *randiju✻ — “a run, race”
  5. derived from randon
  6. inherited from randoun
  7. formed as randomly — “random + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a random manner.

    • I just randomly remembered this dream from 2 years ago.
    • It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner.
    • Every microgame lasts five seconds until it shifts to the next randomly selected ruleset.

  2. By random access

    By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.

    • When a file is accessed randomly, the programmer must specify the relative record number.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for randomly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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