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Random

An absence of any discernable or apparent order, direction, or purpose;

happening haphazardly;

in relation to statistics: of a set of things in which all members of the set have the same probability of occurrence or of variables having an as yet unknown value but a definite probability.

 

(see also: chance, likelihood, Seeking structure in chance and randomness...)

 

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