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aleatoric en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • ālēətôəʹrĭk (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /eɪliːəˈtɔəɹɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Latin āleātōrius (see aleatory) + -ic.

Meanings

  1. Having an element of chance.
  2. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to works that have been produced with an element of chance (aleatoricism).
    • aleatoric music
    • Some artists, like John Cage, have adopted aleatoric methods of composition in order to remove any trace of authorial expression from their work. 2005, Noël Carroll, “Formalism”, in The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, eds. Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (Master e-book IBSN 0203991923), page 89

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most aleatoric Degree=Sup lexicographic
more aleatoric Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

aleatorically

Relateds

aleatory · aleatoricism

Translations (4)

bg случаен (Translations) · fi aleatorinen (Translations) · bg произволен (Translations) · pl aleatoryczny (Translations)