adjective
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a random check (= done without any definite pattern )
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Customs officials were carrying out random checks on cars.
a random error (= one that is not like others or part of a pattern )
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This may seem like a random error, but in fact it is repeated once in every 5,000 samples.
random access memory
random selection (= choosing without any reason or order )
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the random selection of genes
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■ ADVERB
apparently
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Where such chains exist, an apparently random journey through a network becomes a fairly predictable matter.
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There are movements of Rabari, swirls and swoops apparently random but fractal in nature.
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However, computer scientists have developed programs which produce numbers that are apparently random .
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It is found as an apparently random image, often in incongruous, surrealist-like juxtapositions.
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The great inquisitor began with an hour of apparently random questions.
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Contemporary chaos theory talks about so-called strange attractors, which are the ordering principles within such apparently random patterns.
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The passages did not go straight, but turned at right angles and ran into one another in an apparently random fashion.
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Dotted overhead, quite motionless and forming apparently random patterns, were myriads of tiny black specks.
completely
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This helps to balance the overall picture, rather than create four completely random designs.
■ NOUN
access
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Playing time is longer about one hour of straight playing time per side - but random access is less accurate.
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In fact, it had no random access memory at all.
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Myth-1: All disk drive requests are random access .
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It comes with eight megabytes of random access memory, a must since it also comes with Windows 95.
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In order to do this with the minimum access time, random access files are necessary.
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The difficultly of achieving high-speed random access can be reduced by careful design of the data layout.
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Please specify Y if this media unit is a serial device or N if it is a random access device.
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The combination with videodisc players is particularly interesting because of the ways random access can be exploited.
allocation
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The t treatments are applied within each block by random allocation to the experimental units.
check
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More random checks are to be held over the next few weeks.
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Afterwards he was tested positive in a random check .
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A number of local law societies felt that random checks would be more productive in revealing problems.
drug
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Under the governing body's initiative, some karate competitions now include a random drug test.
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Later the same year, a pair of runners refused to submit to random drug tests.
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The International Squash Rackets Federation will introduce random drug testing at next year's world championships.
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The penalty agreed to on the cocaine charge includes four years of supervised probation and random drug testing.
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It thinks universal or random drug testing of employees is an unwarranted invasion of privacy.
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They instituted random drug testing; they searched flight bags.
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The Court of Appeals had just upheld random drug testing for high school cheerleaders in Indiana.
error
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This section then describes some validation parameters including accuracy and precision, random errors , calibration curves and noise.
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This involved initial tests of short and longer term random error and spiking recovery.
event
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Injuries due to accidents are not random events .
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Dunn said the toys have a lot of random events that keep things interesting.
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The reply has been that this converts effects into what they are not: chance or random events , and inexplicable events.
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So far we have treated impacts as single, random events .
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The random event is frightening to all of us because we are defenseless.
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Most random events , of course, would be over the oceans, and would almost certainly not be seen.
fluctuations
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Apart from random fluctuations , the deleterious effect of too short and too long spacing is seen for each order birth.
group
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This was less likely in infants in the random group , half of whom underwent cord clamping within 10 seconds of delivery.
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Median and minimum arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratios for ventilated infants on the first day were significantly lower in the random group .
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Three infants in the random group developed chronic lung disease.
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One infant in the random group later died unexpectedly at home.
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In the random group management was at the attendant's discretion.
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Seventeen infants were enrolled in the regulated group and 19 in the random group.
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Only one infant in the random group was held below the introitus.
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Or were the knives sent to a random group of people to confuse the hunt for either the killer or the hoaxer?
motion
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His hands were moving too - constantly, with that same undersea random motion .
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The gases inside the capsule will be exerting a pressure due to their random motion .
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The pressure of the gas is also due to the random motion of molecules.
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There is a subtle difference between the random motion of molecules and their coherent motion.
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In the atmosphere, the pressure is due to random motion , but wind is due to a degree of coherent motion.
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The particles are in continuous random motion . 3.
mutation
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When they seemed to resemble each other rather too closely, he introduced random mutations in the offspring.
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The genes that cause the elaborate ornament or long tail to appear are subject to random mutation .
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Our random mutation is essential because it is unnecessary.
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The more elaborate the ornament, the more likely that a random mutation will make the ornament less elaborate, not more.
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We want them to emerge solely as a result of cumulative selection of random mutations .
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It follows that some process other than random mutation and selection must be involved.
number
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By using tables of random numbers the children were allocated to three groups: adenotonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and no surgery.
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Littlewoods has reworked its pools coupons to accommodate customers who simply want to pick random numbers .
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The human expertise in computer-derived works could be found to reside in the programs which produced the lists of random numbers .
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That is, a new key is generated as a random number for each message.
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Both the microbiologist and the pathologist were blinded to the treatment by coding the samples with random numbers .
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They were divided by random numbers into two groups, one receiving oxygen during gastroscopy and the other receiving air.
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The trainer would then shout out a random number , for example, six.
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Thus we pick a random number in the range 1 to 586÷2 293.
numbers
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By using tables of random numbers the children were allocated to three groups: adenotonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and no surgery.
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Littlewoods has reworked its pools coupons to accommodate customers who simply want to pick random numbers .
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The human expertise in computer-derived works could be found to reside in the programs which produced the lists of random numbers .
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Both the microbiologist and the pathologist were blinded to the treatment by coding the samples with random numbers .
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They were divided by random numbers into two groups, one receiving oxygen during gastroscopy and the other receiving air.
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Each vertex in the coverage was perturbed by selecting random numbers from a uniform distribution, with ranges defined in Table 6.2.
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If we choose names out of a hat, or by using random numbers , then we are doing truly random sampling.
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The squares were chosen with a table of random numbers .
order
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Records are often processed in a random order .
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They were presented in random order , and the respondents were asked to judge the acceptability of the sentences.
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Investigators and subjects were blinded to insulin type and the insulins were given in random order .
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A number of sentences that describe a sequence of events are presented on the screen in random order .
pattern
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Make a random pattern of, say, square dots on a transparent sheet of paper, and make an identical copy.
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Contemporary chaos theory talks about so-called strange attractors, which are the ordering principles within such apparently random patterns .
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So the seemingly random patterns of the yarrow stalks provide a bridge between your question and the relevant hexagram.
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Dotted overhead, quite motionless and forming apparently random patterns , were myriads of tiny black specks.
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Daunting, too, is the random pattern of attacks, both in location and time.
sample
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Against this must be set a non-response about twice that for a random sample involving house calls.
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The results are not a random sample of the vehicles on the road at all.
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For instance, suppose we want to take a random sample of ten students from a class of 50.
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Thus all members of a simple random sample of 30 pupils from a mixed school could be girls.
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The research involves collecting data from two random samples .
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Altogether, 60 speakers were recorded, taken from a random sample of 120 households.
sampling
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The figures are breathtaking, too, as a random sampling will illustrate.
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If the latter were true, random sampling of the normal mucosa would be less reliable as a means of ascertaining risk.
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Describe and comment on the technique of random sampling .
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In addition he suggests a random sampling of enquiries for further in-depth analysis.
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If we choose names out of a hat, or by using random numbers, then we are doing truly random sampling .
selection
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The random selection of units was vital.
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Meanwhile, the cyber gods controlling the random selection virtually ignored some large districts in other areas of the state.
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Test data was gathered by random selection from each domain until the target of approximately 17 sentences per domain had been met.
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Pete Wilson and the state Lottery, which has some expertise in random selection .
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It also ruled out random selection or co-option of experts.
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Percentage measures of performance should therefore be compared to that expected from random selection .
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For a random selection of 20 crops, the score was 5.
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Instead an intelligence officer had ploughed through Mills' personal effects and leafed through a random selection of files.
sequence
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How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results?
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If n is negative the pseudo random sequence generator is set to a number based on n and n is returned.
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There were 160 trials in random sequence .
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Even proteins formed as a random sequence of amino acids have some slight catalytic activity.
variable
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We shall assume that this deviation is a random variable ,, with mean of zero and constant variance,.
variation
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One doctor raised the issue of random variations in service needs addressed in a paper by Crump etal.
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So much for single-step selection of random variation .
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However, many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or, on occasion, days.
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Usually there will be some random variation of this sort superposed on a relatively constant overall pattern.
violence
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But is it inequality that leaves women subject to random violence ?
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We have enough random violence to keep us busy well past the End Days.
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Soccer fans were its contribution to the global tradition of random violence .
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Even those of high station in so-called safe neighborhoods can not escape the tragedy of random violence .
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The two major criticisms aimed at Farc are that it recruits children and that it carries out acts of random violence .
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Apparently random violence in certain streets enlivened the working day - but sometimes left physical scars.
walk
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The prices of securities follow a random walk .
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Finally, there are great fund managers for whom the random walk may not be so random.
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Share prices follow a random walk without any underlying trend. 5.
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Each protozoon makes a biassed random walk about the screen.
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To keep shifting the target all the time makes life impossible and a sort of random walk develops.
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The random walk in one dimension is discussed in textbooks of thermo-dynamics, as is the three-dimensional random walk.
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It would be totally random , so it could be called a random walk .
way
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It had all just happened in the random way things do.
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A hardware error on the other hand happens in a more or less random way .
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I would not calculate this time, this time I would try to select my route in a random way .
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Such specifics appeared to receive attention in a fairly random way , and there were notable omissions from the specifics attended to.
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Random dashes of color highlight the painting.
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random drug tests
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A few random shots were fired, but the battle was over.
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The union believes that the random drug testing of employees is an invasion of their privacy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At random , I opened an earlier page.
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Because at random was exactly how humans were trying to restore ecosystems.
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Contemporary chaos theory talks about so-called strange attractors, which are the ordering principles within such apparently random patterns.
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I have also decided to do some random attacks as a means of confusing law enforcement.
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It was the random collisions melding the rocky substances, plus turbulent accretions, that were to make up the inner planets.
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Median and minimum arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratios for ventilated infants on the first day were significantly lower in the random group.
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To keep shifting the target all the time makes life impossible and a sort of random walk develops.