ランダム
Meanings
1
General adjectival and noun use for something lacking a pattern or plan. Often used in casual and technical contexts.
Guess the randomly chosen number.
This game has many random elements.
2
abbreviation
Abbreviation of ランダムサンプリング. Used mainly in statistics or data contexts.
See also: ランダムサンプリング
In the survey, we polled 1000 people selected by random sampling.
Usage patterns
- 〈物〉をランダムに選ぶto choose something at random
The participants were chosen at random.
- ランダムな〈数〉a random number
The computer generated a random number.
- 〈物〉をランダムに並べるto arrange things in random order
He arranged the cards randomly and shuffled them.
- 〈人〉をランダムに抽出するto randomly sample (people/data) for a survey or study
The survey was conducted by randomly sampling the subjects.