Dictionary

randomly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹændm̩li/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From random + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a random manner.
   • Every microgame lasts five seconds until it shifts to the next randomly selected ruleset. 2020 June 6, Alan Bernal, “Overwatch gets crazy minigames with epic WarioWare-inspired mod”, in Dexerto:
   • 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. 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:
2. 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. 1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 314:

Forms

Deriveds

pseudorandomly · quasirandomly · nonrandomly · semirandomly

Translations (31)

sk náhodne (in a random way) · fr accidentellement (in a random way) · es a voleo (in a random way) · ar عَشْوَائِيًّا (in a random way) · gl aleatoriamente (in a random way) · es al voleo (in a random way) · pt aleatoriamente (in a random way) · ca aleatòriament (in a random way) · fi satunnaisesti (in a random way) · la temere (in a random way) · pl przypadkowo (in a random way) · oc a l'asard (in a random way) · gl ó chou (in a random way) · hi यदृच्छया (in a random way) · da vilkårligt (in a random way) · pl losowo (in a random way) · pt ao acaso (in a random way) · es al azar (in a random way) · oc a l'azard (in a random way) · gl a eito (in a random way) · hi यादृच्छिकतः (in a random way) · fr en vrac (in a random way) · fr par hasard (in a random way) · cmn 随机 (in a random way) · de zufällig (in a random way) · ca a l'atzar (in a random way) · fi sattumanvaraisesti (in a random way) · da tilfældigt (in a random way) · es alrandon (in a random way) · el τυχαία (in a random way) · tr rastgele (in a random way)